Frederick Watkins Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Laura Armetta - FURRY1000@aol.com

Surname: WATKINS
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 972

      FREDERICK WATKINS conducts a blacksmithing establishment
in Portsmouth, N. H., and for nineteen years has been at his present
location. He is a native of Portsmouth, and is a son of Thomas Watkins,
and grandson of Benjamin Watkins.
     Thomas Watkins was born in Portsmouth, and died in this city in
1905. He was a moulder by trade, and for some years was on the board
of aldermen. He married Mary Ackerman, who was born in Ports-
mouth, where she still lives. They had the following children: Charles
A.; Mabel F., deceased wife of George A. Trafton, and Frederick.
     Frederick Watkins received his educational training in the grade
and high schools of Portsmouth, attending the latter three years. He
then learned the trade of blacksmith, horseshoer and wheelwright, which
he has followed ever since. He was not content to work long for
others before establishing a business of his own. He has one man in his
employ, and they are kept constantly busy.
     Mr. Watkins was married in December, 1896, to Miss Margaret
Jeanette McNeill, a native of Nova Scotia, and they have one daugh-
tel-, Mabel Jeanette. The subject of this record is a thirty-second de-
gree Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias, of the Sons of Veterans,
and also a past warden of Kearsarge Lodge, N. E. O, P. He is a past
master of St. John's Lodge, No. 1, A. F. & A. M., the second oldest lodge
in the United States; is a past master of Grand Lodge of Perfection, fif-
tcenth degree, A. A. S. R.; E. King of Washington Royal Arch Chapter,
and a past chancellor of Damon Lodge, K. of P. He is a Republican in
politics. Mr. and Mrs. Watkins attend the Congregational church.

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