About: Thomas Handasyd Perkins

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins, also known as T. H. Perkins (December 15, 1764 – January 11, 1854), was an American merchant, slave trader, smuggler and philanthropist from a wealthy Boston Brahmin family. Starting with bequests from his grandfather and father-in-law, he amassed a huge fortune. As a young man, he traded slaves in Saint-Domingue, worked as a maritime fur trader trading furs from the American Northwest to China, and then turned to smuggling Turkish opium into China. His philanthropic contributions include the Perkins School for the Blind, renamed in his honor; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; McLean Hospital; along with having a hand in founding the Massachusetts General Hospital.

thumbnail
Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins, also known as T. H. Perkins (December 15, 1764 – January 11, 1854), was an American merchant, slave trader, smuggler and philanthropist from a wealthy Boston Brahmin family. Starting with bequests from his grandfather and father-in-law, he amassed a huge fortune. As a young man, he traded slaves in Saint-Domingue, worked as a maritime fur trader trading furs from the American Northwest to China, and then turned to smuggling Turkish opium into China. His philanthropic contributions include the Perkins School for the Blind, renamed in his honor; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; McLean Hospital; along with having a hand in founding the Massachusetts General Hospital. (en)
dbo:birthDate
  • 1764-12-15 (xsd:date)
dbo:birthPlace
dbo:birthYear
  • 1764-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:deathDate
  • 1854-01-11 (xsd:date)
dbo:deathPlace
dbo:deathYear
  • 1854-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:occupation
dbo:parent
dbo:relative
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 2119853 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 19268 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1113511349 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:birthDate
  • 1764-12-15 (xsd:date)
dbp:birthPlace
dbp:children
  • 6 (xsd:integer)
dbp:deathDate
  • 1854-01-11 (xsd:date)
dbp:deathPlace
dbp:name
  • Thomas Handasyd Perkins (en)
dbp:nationality
  • American (en)
dbp:occupation
  • Shipping magnate (en)
dbp:parents
dbp:relatives
dbp:spouse
  • 1852 (xsd:integer)
  • 1788-03-25 (xsd:date)
  • (en)
  • Sarah Elliott (en)
  • her death (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
schema:sameAs
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins, also known as T. H. Perkins (December 15, 1764 – January 11, 1854), was an American merchant, slave trader, smuggler and philanthropist from a wealthy Boston Brahmin family. Starting with bequests from his grandfather and father-in-law, he amassed a huge fortune. As a young man, he traded slaves in Saint-Domingue, worked as a maritime fur trader trading furs from the American Northwest to China, and then turned to smuggling Turkish opium into China. His philanthropic contributions include the Perkins School for the Blind, renamed in his honor; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; McLean Hospital; along with having a hand in founding the Massachusetts General Hospital. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Thomas Handasyd Perkins (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Thomas Handasyd Perkins (en)
is dbo:owner of
is dbo:relation of
is dbo:relative of
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:relations of
is dbp:relatives of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License