Edwin E. Perkins

(1889-1961) lived in Hendley, Furnas County, and Hastings. Entrepreneur, inventor of Kool-Aid and other home products, philanthropist. Consult The/Beaver City, NE/Times-Tribune, March 12, 1953, pp. 1, 8 and Adams County, Nebraska Historical Society, Historical News, Vol 13 (March 1980) 1-6 and (April 1980) 1-6 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, August 10, 1986, p. 14 and Omaha World Herald, August 14, 1998, p. 18.

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