The Cordova daily times., 1920-06-25
4 MAN OF EVEMENT

GeOrge w. Perkins, whose death was announced a few days ago in our Associated Press report, was for ten years a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Company, of New York, and during the construction days of the Copper River & North western railway. MT. Perkins made trip to Cordova and will be remem- bered by many of our old-time resi- dents. He was reputed to have first suggested to and persuaded "big- bus mess" to adopt profit-sharing, insur- ance, service houses, sick benefits and old-age pensions.
 It was Perkins who was also said to have inaugurated the plan which permitted employees of the United States Steel Corporation and the In ternatiOnal Harvestor Company, in both of which he was at one time an executive to purchase stock on in stalments and at less than market 1 trial justice is the most profitable of investments, that justice promotes peace, peace promotes prosperity, and that the workmen's prosperity is necessary to the prosperity of the bus mess man."
 MT. Perkins was born in Chicago, January 31, 1862, a descendent of Jacob Perkins, an English ancestor who settled in Boston in 1631. His father, George w. Perkins, long en- gagged in the shipping industry at Buff l falo, was later a pioneer in the life insurance field. The son entered the insurance business in Chicago when 15 years old, as clerk, became boOkkeeper, an agent and subsequent ly manager of a Cleveland office. He went to Denver and in 1903 was made Insurance Company. His achieve ments attracted the attention of the elder Morgan and in 1900 he was in vited to become member of the Wall street firm. In this capacity he ne gotiated a number of big foreign loans. He remained with J. P Morgan & Company until 1910, meanwhile be- coming a director of numerous large corporations including the steel and harvester companies, number of railroads and the International Mer- cantile Marine Company.
 Retiring from business a few years later as he said, "to devote myself to other work of a public and semi public nature" MT. Perkins wrote and spoke frequently on the subject of industrial justice and when Col onel Roosevelt became Progressive candidate for the presidency in 1912 he became chairman of the National Executive Committee of the party Previously he had been a Republican The year before he had urged a re- vision of the Federal Corporation laws and in testifying before a congression- al committee Investigating the United States Steel Corporation he advocated the fullest publicity for all corpora tions. Despite the defeat of the Col onel, MT. Perkins continued active in his advocacy of Progressive principles
 MT. Perkins early in the world war interested himself in the matter of American preparedness. He was a severe critic of President Wilson. In a speech in Indianapolis in 1915 he declared the United States was un- prepared for war; and urged immed- fate action. After the United States entered the struggle he endeavored to stimulate food production and by large purchases of provisions at dis tant points sought to avert war time shortage in New York City. He was also active in Red Cross, Liberty Loan and other patriotic. drives. After the war MT. Perkins went to France to investigate charges of waste and inefficiency against the Young Mems Christian Association workers abroad. He reported that while some mistakes had been made there was "little ground for honest criticism"
 A close friend of the late Mayor John Purroy Mitchell, MT. Perkins at one time was prominently mentioned for the mayoralty of New York He was once quoted as having said that New York City could save $25,000,- coo a year by proper cut in it's budget" He was a trustee of Vassar College and Berry School, Rome Ga, and member of numerous civic, scientific sociological and philan- l thrODic organizations Tn 1911 Mir Per-