1892 Biography - Harry S. Perkins

Harry Scott Perkins is a progressive planter of East Feliciana parish, and is residing on and managing the plantation on which his ancestors settled on first coming to the state. He was born in this parish in 1859 and was the third of his parents' eight children. After attending Centenary college for some time he finished his education in the University of Mississippi, at Oxford, during which time he improved his opportunities to the utmost and upon finishing his literary education was an exceptionally well-informed young man. He immediately settled down to tilling the soil on the home plantation but in connection with this business is also engaged in merchandising, being associated in the latter business with E. N. Perkins, the style of the firm being E. N. Perkins & Co. They do a general supply and mercantile business, their establishment being located in one of the finest and most fertile farming regions of the parish. In 1877 Mr. Perkins became the manager of the home plantation and successfully conducted affairs until 1889, since which time he has been following the same calling but solely for himself. He is very progressive in his views, is of a very energetic temperament, and as a result has made a success of every enterprise in which he has engaged. In his political views he has followed in the footsteps of his father and is a democrat, but has never taken any decided interest in political issues. On January 18, 1887, he was married to Miss Mary E. Gayden, a daughter of I. G. Gayden [see sketch]. She was reared in East Feliciana parish, and her union with Mr. Perkins has resulted in the birth of one son, Lewis Gayden. The residence in which Mr. and Mrs. Perkins reside is a two-and-a-half-story brick and was erected in 1837 or 1838. It is a spacious and imposing residence, strictly southern in architecture, and under the regime of the Perkins family has become noted for unbounded hospitality.

Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana, published in 1892, volume 2, page 306.