Perkins, Ralph C., 1888-

Born in 1888 in Calais, Me., Perkins, like his father John A. Perkins, had a long and successful career in the textile industry. As a young man, he worked in several New England mills and completed a two year night program at the New Bedford Textile School in New Bedford, Mass. From 1915-25, he worked in New Bedford as a cotton broker and agent at Stephen M. Weld & Co. In 1924, Perkins and John B. Strongman of New Bedford bought property and machinery from the Manhasset Manufacturing Co. in Providence, R.I., and formed the Perkins-Strongman Corp. in Putnam, Conn., which produced curtain cloth and other rayon and cotton specialty cloth. The company was liquidated in 1935.

Perkins also served as treasurer and director of Stafford Mills, Fall River, Mass.; treasurer, director and member of the executive committee of both Pilgrim Mills, Fall River, Mass. and Queen City Cotton Co., Burlington, Vt.; and president and director of Naushon Mills, New Bedford, Mass. After the liquidation of Pilgrim Mills in 1942, Perkins became a consultant in the textile industry and worked in Washington as a U.S. Deputy Member of the Textile Committee of the Combined Production and Resources Board, 1944-1945.

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