Dr. Joseph Conrad Watkins, Jr. was born in Winston-Salem, N.C. on July 4, 1903, to Dr. Joseph Conrad Watkins and Irene Montague Watkins.
Joseph Conrad Watkins, Sr., was a Wake Forest alumnus (1897) and received an honorary doctorate in 1922. The elder Watkins was born November 27, 1873 and, in addition to A.B. and LL.B. degrees, he attended Salem Boys School in Winston-Salem. After receiving his D.D.S. from the University of Maryland (1900), he practiced medicine in Winston. Watkins married Irene Montague on June 21, 1902. Watkins, Sr., died on January 5, 1959, and Irene Watkins died on November 11, 1957.
Watkins, Jr., finished high school in Winston-Salem in 1920, and received a bachelor of arts degree (1924) from Wake Forest College and Bowman Gray School of Medicine. After attending Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia (1926), Watkins, Jr., practiced medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C. and Philadelphia. He died May 20, 1928, in New York, New York.
This collection contains a Wake Forest College scrapbook compiled by Joseph C. Watkins, Jr., dated 1920-1923. Other materials relate to his immediate family members, including obituary sketches, diplomas belonging to parents Joseph Conrad Watkins, Sr., and Irene Montague, from the Salem Boys School (1898), Wake Forest College (1897, 1922) and Salem Academy (1898), and a diploma that brother Richard Montague Watkins received from Mars Hill College (1925).
Joseph Conrad Watkins, Jr. Papers (MS289), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
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This collection is related to the Joseph Conrad Watkins Papers (MS188).
Processed by John Woodard. Encoded by Apex, March 2005. Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), with support provided through North Carolina ECHO.