Rebecca Talbot Perkins
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| name = Rebecca Talbot Perkins
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| birth_name = Rebecca Clarendon Talbot
| birth_date = February 14, 1866
| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York
| death_date = {{death date and age|1956|11|1|1866|2|14}}
| death_place = Brooklyn, New York
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| spouse = Agar Ludlow Perkins (m. 1895)
| known_for = Founding Talbot Perkins Children's Services
| occupation = Businessperson, philanthropist, activist
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Rebecca Talbot Perkins ({{nee|Talbot}}; February 14, 1866 – November 1, 1956){{Cite web|title=Rebecca Clarendon Talbot family tree|url=https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records//Rebecca_Clarendon_Talbot_records.ashx?pid=43583052|access-date=2021-06-24|website=www.ancestry.com}}{{cite web|title=Rebecca Talbot Perkins - National Womens Hall of Fame|url=http://www.greatwomen.org/women-of-the-hall/search-the-hall-results/details/2/234-Perkins|access-date=8 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130404191431/http://www.greatwomen.org/women-of-the-hall/search-the-hall-results/details/2/234-Perkins|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 April 2013}} was an American businessperson, philanthropist, and activist from Brooklyn, New York. She was the founder of Talbot Perkins Children's Services. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2009.
Early years
Perkins was born Rebecca Clarendon Talbot in Brooklyn, the daughter of Joseph Talbot and the former Eliza Clarendon.{{cite wikisource |title=Woman's Who's Who of America, 1914-15 |editor-first=John William| editor-last=Leonard |year=1915 |publisher=The American Commonwealth Company |location=New York |page=640 |scan=Page:Woman's who's who of America, 1914-15.djvu/628}}
Career and education
She attended what is now known as the Chautauqua Institution and continued to work there for ten years after graduating.
Joseph Talbot founded a real estate brokerage but died of influenza just a few years later, in 1890. Rebecca, still unmarried, took over the business at a time when it was rare for a woman to be in business at all, let alone running a firm.
Even while running the brokerage, she maintained an active involvement in charity and social activism. At various times, she led, among other organizations, the Alliance of Women's Clubs of Brooklyn, the People's Political League of Kings County, the Memorial Hospital for Women and Children, and the Welcome Home for Girls. In 1927, she founded (with the Alliance) The Rebecca Talbot Perkins Adoption Society, which later became Talbot Perkins Children's Services.
Personal life
She married Agar Ludlow Perkins on September 5, 1895.{{cite wikisource|title=Woman's Who's Who of America, 1914-15|year=1915|page=640|location=New York|publisher=The American Commonwealth Company|editor-last=Leonard|editor-first=John William|scan=Page:Woman's who's who of America, 1914-15.djvu/628}}
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Category:American businesspeople in real estate
Category:19th-century American businesspeople
Category:Philanthropists from New York (state)
Category:Place of death missing
Category:Businesspeople from Brooklyn