Lewie A. Watkins Papers
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Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of four photographs, a scrapbook pertaining to Watkins's many activities (including nine photographs and a number of postcards), and a minute book containing the records of the Missouri and Arkansas Railway Company (one of the successor corporations of the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Company).
A newsletter included in the orginal collection, Oak Leaves (a publication of the Missouri and Arkansas Railroad Museum, Inc., Beaver, Arkansas), dated spring 1982, has been removed for cataloging into the Arkansas Collection.
Dates
- ca. 1917-1981
Creator
Language of Materials
Materials are in English.
Access Information
Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.
Use Information
No Use Restrictions Apply.
No Interlibrary Loan.
Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).
Biographical Note
Lewie Watkins, born February 14, 1896, near Harrison, Arkansas, was a World War I veteran, schoolteacher, lawyer, and businessman. He was also active in church, fraternal, and civic organizations. An employee of the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Company in 1917, he returned to the railroad after service in World War I and was continuously employed by it and successor corporations until at least 1946, rising from clerk and errand boy to president. He was director of the Arkansas Power and Light Company from 1941 until about 1971, as well as president of the Security Bank, Harrison, member of the Arkansas State Board of Education, chairman of the first Tourism Committee for Arkansas, secretary-treasurer and director of the Boone County Soil and Water Conservation District, and owner, director, executive, or advisor to a number of other businesses and organizations.
Extent
1.7 Linear Feet (6 items in 1 box)
Acquisition Information
Papers pertaining to Lewie A. (Lewis Albert) Watkins were donated to Special Collections by his son, Joe Watkins, of Harrison, Arkansas, on November 2, 1987.
Processing Information
Prepared by Nan Lawler, Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, in June 1988.
- Title
- Lewie A. Watkins Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Nan Lawler
- Date
- 1988
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Department Repository
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444
specoll@uark.edu