Father of Brig General William Ward Watkin, Jr. Married Annie Ray Townsend in 1914 (d 1929); Married Josephine Cockrell 1933 (d. 1987)
Son of Fred Ward Watkin and Mary Mathilda Hancock
Watkin studied architecture with Paul Philippe Cret at the University of Pennsylvania and earned a B.S. degree in 1908. In 1909 he went to work for the Boston architects Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson, who sent him to Houston in August 1910 to oversee construction of the initial buildings of the Rice Institute (now Rice University), "
For more information see the following:
Stephen Fox, "WATKIN, WILLIAM WARD," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwa91), accessed June 17, 2012. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Son of Fred Ward Watkin and Mary Mathilda Hancock
Watkin studied architecture with Paul Philippe Cret at the University of Pennsylvania and earned a B.S. degree in 1908. In 1909 he went to work for the Boston architects Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson, who sent him to Houston in August 1910 to oversee construction of the initial buildings of the Rice Institute (now Rice University), "
For more information see the following:
Stephen Fox, "WATKIN, WILLIAM WARD," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwa91), accessed June 17, 2012. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Father of Brig General William Ward Watkin, Jr. Married Annie Ray Townsend in 1914 (d 1929); Married Josephine Cockrell 1933 (d. 1987)
Son of Fred Ward Watkin and Mary Mathilda Hancock
Watkin studied architecture with Paul Philippe Cret at the University of Pennsylvania and earned a B.S. degree in 1908. In 1909 he went to work for the Boston architects Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson, who sent him to Houston in August 1910 to oversee construction of the initial buildings of the Rice Institute (now Rice University), "
For more information see the following:
Stephen Fox, "WATKIN, WILLIAM WARD," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwa91), accessed June 17, 2012. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Son of Fred Ward Watkin and Mary Mathilda Hancock
Watkin studied architecture with Paul Philippe Cret at the University of Pennsylvania and earned a B.S. degree in 1908. In 1909 he went to work for the Boston architects Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson, who sent him to Houston in August 1910 to oversee construction of the initial buildings of the Rice Institute (now Rice University), "
For more information see the following:
Stephen Fox, "WATKIN, WILLIAM WARD," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwa91), accessed June 17, 2012. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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