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WALDO E. WATKINS
Vol. 3, p. 1229
Book has photo

A son of Ben Watkins, that noted educator and leader of the Choctaw
Nation, whose career has been sketched on other pages, is now one of
the leading young business men of the Choctaw country, being cashier
of the First National Bank of Valliant and filling several posts of
public duty.

Waldo E. Watkins was born at Lukfata in 1883. After attending
neighborhood schools he entered Spencer Academy, and later was a
student at Harrell Institute in Muskogee and Jones Academy at
Hartshorne. In 1905 he became a clerk in the bank of Valliant and two
years later was elected cashier. The bank was nationalized in 1911,
and his services were retained as cashier.

Mr. Watkins married in 1910 Miss Sue TOWNSEND, who is one-half
Choctaw blood. They have a daughter, Bernice, four years old. Mr.
Watkins is a member of the Presbyterian Church and of the Masonic
Order, being master of the Blue Lodge in Valliant and a member of
Indian Consistory No. 2 at McAlester, and Bedouin Temple of the
Mystic Shrine of Muskogee. He is a member of the Oklahoma and
American Bankers' Association, is clerk of the board of education and
a member of the town board of trustees. Since statehood he has been
an active part in political affairs in McCurtain County, and is now
chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee. Among other
interests he is owner and publisher of the Valliant Tribune, and also
has a modern stock farm near Valliant on which he is growing Hereford
cattle and Poland China hogs.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Charmaine Keith, October 14, 1998.