Frank L. Watkins

Frank L. Watkins, a physician of Tulsa, was born in Scioto County, Ohio, June 28, 1879.  His parents were George H. and Lillie (Glaze) Watkins, also natives of the Buckeye state. The father engaged in the lumber business for many years and spent his entire life in Ohio, where he was well known as a man of sterling worth, loyal to the teachings and purposes of the Masonic fraternity in which he held membership.  His widow survives and is living in Portsmouth, Ohio.  Of the family of three children, one has passed away.

When a lad of six years Dr. Watkins became a pupil in the public schools of his native county and afterward attended the Ohio State University, in which  he pursued his professional course, winning the M.D. degree as a member of the class of 1901. He then located for practice in Portsmouth, Ohio, where he remained for four years and later was in Belle Valley, Ohio, for two years. He afterward spent an equal period in Xenia, Ohio, and was engaged in the state public health work for a period of ten years in Ohio, Minnesota, Mississippi and Florida, being an expert special agent for the Bureau of the Census.  In April, 1918, he arrived in Tulsa and through the intervening period has engaged in general practice.  He belongs to the County and State Medical Associations and to the American Medical Association.

In 1901 Dr. Watkins was married to Miss Dollie Dutton and they have become parents of three children: Dorothy, eighteen years of age, now a high school pupil; George Henderson, a youth of fifteen; and Frank Walton, a lad of eleven. Dr. Watkins is a Mason, belonging to Pearl Lodge, No.23, A. F. & A. NI., of Jackson, Mississippi, and he has also taken the degrees of the York and Scottish Rites and has become a member of Wahaha Temple of the Mystic Shrine and of Saba Grotto of Tulsa. The Red Cross of Constantine was conferred upon him by the Mississippi Chapter.