Thomas James Perkins (May 3, 1817 – August 6, 1896) was a lawyer, railroad employee, intendant Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida, and a partner in a cotton trading business.[1]
He was born to John Day Perkins and Elizabeth Bradshaw Perkins in Queen Anne's County, Maryland. He settled in Tallahassee in 1837,[2] years before statehood, and worked for a railroad company. The Florida Archives have a portrait of him and his wife Amelia Mather Keowin Perkins. They had ten children.[3]