Lapeer County MI Archives Biographies.....Watkins, Frank E. 1860 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

FRANK E. WATKINS. It is a pleasure to chronicle the success of those
agriculturists who, having small tracts of land, treat them so scientifically as
to be proportionately more productive than are the broad acres of larger land
owners. Mr. Watkins is a general farmer on a tract of forty acres located on
section 19, Attica Township, Lapeer County, and is very successful as an
agriculturist. The place where he lives is also his birthplace, his natal day
having been December 9, 1860.

  Mr. Watkins is a son of Ebenezer J. and Jane (Hazzard) Watkins. The former was
a native of New Hampshire, and was born in 1823. He has always been a farmer,
and now resides on the place adjoining that of his son. He is a stanch old
gentleman in every respect, being as loyal in his politics, which are those of
the Republican party, as in everything else. Our subject's mother was the first
white female child born in Shelby Township, Macomb County. Her lather was an old
pioneer in that township, going there on horseback along a bridle path. Our
subject's mother still survives, and is now sixty-seven years of age.

  Frank Watkins has spent all his life on the place where he now resides. He
went to the district school until he was past twenty-one years of age, and
acquired a good English education, and is qualified to teach. He helped his
father clear the farm, and November 19, 1884 was united in marriage to Miss Eva
Nevill, a native of Canada, who has lived the most of her life in the village of
Attica, and is a daughter of James and Mary (Wigle) Nevill. Our subject and his
wife have had two children: Edith, who was born on September 16, 1885; and
Harry, who was born March 4, 1887. Both our subject and his wife are members of
Attica Center Patrons of Industry. In politics Mr. Watkins is a strong
Republican, and at present holds the office of Highway Commissioner, this being
his second term.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892

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