Watkins, John Brownson. Papers 1895-1919

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Watkins, John Brownson. Papers 1895-1919

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John B. Watkins was an alumnus of the University of Chicago. He drove an ambulance for several years in France during WWI. The collection contains his letters home during that time, as well as news clippings and a few items of personal ephemera.

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

Watkins, John Brownson

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John Brownson Watkins was born June 20, 1899 in Kankakee, IL. He entered the University of Chicago in1916 but left to be a volunteer ambulance driver in France in 1917. When American troops arrived in Europe, Watkins joined the Army. Between 1917 and 1919, he wrote letters to his parents in Kankakee, IL, as well as to other family members. Some of the letters were excerpted for local papers, and were written with this in mind. Upon returning to the States, Watkins comple...