Background
Watkins, Robert Henry was born on January 6, 1857 in Pulaski, Giles Company, Tennessee, United States. Son of Robert Henry and Mary Margaret (Crater) Watkins.
Watkins, Robert Henry was born on January 6, 1857 in Pulaski, Giles Company, Tennessee, United States. Son of Robert Henry and Mary Margaret (Crater) Watkins.
Bachelor of Science, University of Alabama, 1876.
Of Robert Burns Lindsay, of Tuscumbia, Alabama, January 23, 1884. Reporter, Nashville American, 1880-1882. Founded, 1882, with brother, James L., and city managing editor, 1882-1889, Birmingham (Alabama) Age (now Age-Herald).
City editor, 1889-1890, and Washington correspondent, 1890, and in 1890 correspondent, Memphis Appeal.
Washington correspondent of various Southern newspapers, since 1895. Now of Mobile Item and Knoxville Journal and Tribune.
Member Kappa Sigma.
Married Mary Katherine, daughter