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Angeles County
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MRS. LOUISE WARD
WATKINS
At the head of the Friday Morning
Club of Los Angeles is Mrs. Louise Ward Watkins, whose civic activities and
literary talents have gained for her more than local prominence. She is a native of Boonville, New York, born
March 18, 1890, and a daughter of George Clinton and Katherine Louise (Schweinsburg) Ward.
A review of the career of George Clinton Ward, president of the Southern
California Edison Company, may be found on another page of this work.
Louise Whipple Ward, the only
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Ward, was twelve years of age when in 1902
she removed with her parents to Washington Court House, Ohio, where she
obtained her high school education. She
next took a course in the Huntington Hall for girls at Los Angeles, graduating
in 1907. Afterward she studied for the
stage, and during 1913-14 attended the law school of the University of Southern
California. Gifted along varied lines,
she has won prestige as a dramatic reader, as a lecturer and as the author of
four widely read books. Appreciative of
the best in literature, she derives much enjoyment from her valuable collection
of books, which includes first editions and other rare volumes. She is a member of the Ebell Club and
formerly served as its curator of poetry.
In 1931 she was called to the presidency of the Friday Morning Club of
Los Angeles and was reelected in 1933, her second term expiring in 1935. She also belongs to the Los Angeles Browning
Society. She has manifested a deep and
helpful interest in civic and patriotic projects, and her name is on the
membership rolls of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina, the Daughters of
American Colonists, the Daughters of Colonial Wars, Los Angeles Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution, Daughters of the War of 1812 and
Daughters of the Union, 1861 – 1865.
On the 14th of October,
1915, Miss Louise Whipple Ward became the wife of Edward Francis Watkins, who
was born in Alhambra, Los Angeles County, California, March
25, 1883. Mr. and Mrs. Watkins have
three sons and four daughters: Katherine
S., Rose Mary, George Clinton, Arabella H., John
Francis, James David and Charlotte E.
The family home is at 1105 Park View Avenue in Pasadena.
Transcribed
by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 653-654,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V.
Gerald Iaquinta.
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