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RANSOM & PERKINS. This firm, composed of George W. Ransom and Daniel P. Perkins, are dealers in lumber and operate a saw and planing mill at Murfreesboro, Tenn. The business was established in the fall of 1879 by G. W. Ransom, who conducted it successfully until January, 1883, when Mr. Perkins purchased an interest. They do an extensive and lucrative business, and are one of the leading firms of the city. George W. Ransom was born in Rutherford County, July 29, 1838, and is the youngest son in a family of thirteen children (seven now living) born to the marriage of John Ransom and Elizabeth Bowman, natives of North Carolina and Pennsylvania, respectively. Both father and mother came to Tennessee at an early period with their parents, and in this State our subject’s father reared his family. He was a farmer and cotton dealer, a Whig in politics, and was magistrate of his district a number of years. He died September 9, 1849. George W. secured a good education, taking an academic course in his boyhood days. In 1857 he took a prospecting trip through Texas, but in 1858 returned and followed merchandising in this city and Fayetteville, Tenn., until the war. In 1862 he enlisted in Company D, Eleventh Tennessee Cavalry, serving until the close of the war. Since that time he has been engaged in merchandising and the lumber business. In 1859 he married Bettie Bostick, who died in 1863, leaving two sons: John B., of this city, and George T., of Williamson County. In 1869 Mr. Ransom married Margaret Buchanan, of Davidson County. They have seven children — five sons and two daughters. Mr. Ransom is a Democrat, and has served several terms as alderman. He is a member of the K. of H. and A. O. U. W., and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.