Edwin perkins ethnicity
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Edwin J. Perkins (1939–2018)
Edwin J. Perkins, professor emeritus at the University of Southern California (USC), died unexpectedly on October 20, 2018, at the age of 79.
Perkins earned his BA from the College of William & Mary in 1961, his MBA from the University of Virginia in 1963, and his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1972 under the guidance of business historians Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and Louis Galambos. He joined the faculty at USC in 1973, retiring in 1997.
Steve Ross, his former colleague at USC, says that Perkins “was one of the few business historians who openly welcomed a partnership with a labor historian and a view toward writing business history with an understanding of labor issues.” Ross adds, “It’s tough to lose a friend, advisor, colleague, and general good guy. Our lives are all emptier—with fewer laughs—without Ed.”
When featured in AHA Today’s “AHA Member Spotlight” in 2016, Perkins noted that what he valued most about the history profession was the opportunity to pursue his “research interests and to train graduate students for equall
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When Edwin Elijah Perkins was born on 8 January 1889, in Lewis, Cass, Iowa, United States, his father, David Miller Perkins, was 36 and his mother, Cassandra H. "Kizzie" Haymaker, was 22. He married Katherine Melda "Kitty" Shoemaker on 30 September 1918, in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Miami Beach, Miami-Dade, Florida, United States in 1950 and River Forest, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1950. He died on 3 July 1961, in Rochester, Olmsted, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Parkview Cemetery, Hastings, Adams, Nebraska, United States.
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Edwin E. Perkins
Original Perkins Building
Kool-Aid-a name simple but catchy, a product unprepossessing but salable. Today, a household word for millions. The Kool-Aid story is the American dream come true, the classic tale of a young man with brains, imagination, a strong work ethic and merchandising ability who was able to parlay a few simple chemicals into a multi-million dollar business--rising from sodhouse to mansion in one lifetime.
Kool-Aid itself was born in Hastings and reached maturity in Chicago. The Kool-Aid story is also the story of Edwin E. Perkins and his family. Born in Lewis, Iowa, on January 8, 1889, Edwin was the oldest son of David and Kizandra Perkins, whose families had migrated from eastern states in an earlier day. Kizzie's father had once been a station agent at the Julesburg stage station on the Oregon Trail, and in 1893, the Perkins family sold their general store in Iowa and moved to a farm in Furnas County, Nebraska. There they lived in a thr
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