OBIT: John Darragh WILKINS, 1900, native of Allegheny County, PA

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COLONEL JOHN D. WILKINS

  Colonel John Darragh Wilkins, Aged 78 years, died Wednesday at his 
home at Washington, D.C. where he had resided since his retirement from 
the United States Army in 1886. Colonel Wilkins was well known in 
Pittsburg, having been born here in 1822.
  He was the son of  Capt. John Holmes Wilkins, U.S.A. and Mary 
Darragh, daughter of John Darragh, first mayor of Pittsburg.
  He received his early education in an old stone school house in 
Lawrenceville and was appointed to West Point in 1842.  He graduated 
and fought in the Civil War as Captain of the Third United States 
Infantry. In 1864, he was made Major of the Fifteenth Infantry and in 
1873 Lieutenant Colonel of the Eighth Infantry.  In 1882 he became 
Colonel of the Fifth Infantry, which title he bore at the time of his 
retirement in 1886.
  He was a member of the Astec Society of the Mexican War; the Loyal 
Legion and the Army and Navy Club of Washington, D.C.
  Colonel Wilkins is survived by one daughter, who is the wife of Major 
Charles Porter, U.S.A.  His wife died about three years ago.  A brother 
W. D. Wilkins, a member of the Allegheny County Bar, resides in this 
city.

The Dispatch, Pittsburg, Pa., February 20, 1900

Note:  His wife's name was Caroline and he had two daughters, Carrie 
and Emma.  Colonel Wilkins and his wife are both buried at Arlington 
National Cemetery - site 794