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Box 4

 Container

Contains 31 Results:

Mary Hancock Watkin & William Ward Watkin

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, photographs, family trees, vital records and other genealogical material related to the Watkin family of Houston, TX (1910s-current) and of Pennsylvania. William Ward Watkin (1886-1952) was the first Supervising Architect of Rice Institute and the first chair of the Dept. of Architecture at Rice Institute. His daughter, Ray Watkin Strange, is a Rice graduate and significant supporter of Rice University and the Fondren Library.

Dates: 1899-1999