About Elizabeth Watkins
Lived 1861 – 1939 (aged 77–78). Elizabeth Watkins was an American philanthropist.
Elizabeth Josephine Watkins (1861-1939) was a philanthropist, best known for funding hospitals and scholarship halls in Lawrence, Kansas.
She was born Elizabeth Josephine Miller in New Paris, Ohio in 1861. Her family moved to Lawrence, Kansas in 1872, In 1875, her father's death forced her to leave school and find work to financially support her family. She worked at J.B. Watkins Land and Mortgage Company, where she eventually became the secretary to the company's wealthy founder and president, Jabez Bunting Watkins.
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Elizabeth Watkins was born in 1861.
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Elizabeth Watkins died in 1939.
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