Merchant Prince of Boston : Colonel T. H. Perkins, 1764-1854 / Stanley Paterson, Carl Seaburg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seaburg, Carl, author.

Paterson, Stanley, author.

Series:

Harvard Studies in Business History

Harvard Studies in Business History ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perkins, Thomas Handasyd, 1764-1854.

Local Subjects:

Perkins, Thomas Handasyd, 1764-1854.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (489 p.): 1 Frontispiz

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

Editor's Foreword

Contents

Illustrations

Young Tom I 1764-1785

I. Death on the Doorstep

2. There Is Two Iron Guns in My Store

3. The Drums Beat and Away

T. Handasyd Perkins II 1786-1799

4. Puritan in Paradise

5. Into the Bosome of the Ocean

6. Hence I Hauled My Wind to the North

7. On the Edge of Vesuvius

8. A Connection Between Brothers

9. The Gentlemen Drink Brandy Punch

10. The Game Playing in Europe

11. Firmly in Federal Paths

Colonel T. H. Perkins III 1799-1820

12. See How We Grovel Here Below

13. A Solemn Protest Against the Ice, Winds, Tides, and Rocks

14. The Principal Agent of An Important Establishment

15. Party Provoked To All Its Rage

16. Strong Nerves and Long Purses

17. No Boat, Raft, or Float Can Pass Our Castle

18. Short Blast on the Otter

19. Far Different from Our Calculations

20. With No One To Tell My Cares To

21. Sticking by the Stall

22. A Great Shaking

23. A Cavalcade of Boston Gentlemen

24. A Plain Unvarnished Tale

25. The Late Event in My Family

26. The Consequences of Leaving Off His Flannels

27. Too Much for Mortal Man To Bear

28. Great Means, Ardent Public Spirit, and Pertinacious Enterprise

29. In the Teeth of Mr. P.

The Old Colonel IV 1828-1854

30. Retiring from the Bustle?

31. This Class of the Human Family

32. I Try To Be Contented with What I Have

33. A Flicker in the Dying Flame

34. Unveil Thy Bosom, Faithful Tomb

35. The Gentleman on the Wall

Genealogy of the Perkins Family A List of the Perkins Firms

Genealogy of the Perkins Family

The Perkins Firms

Sources and Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-86580-4

OCLC:

1013948920