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J. M. Watkins, physician, Little Rock, Ark. Dr. Watkins is a young man of decided intellectual ability, is ever ready to obey the call of all classes, and is in truth a physician of thorough learning, and one who has been very successful. Originally from Izard County, Ark., where his birth occurred in 1859, he received his literary education in La Cross, Izard County, and studied medicine under his father at that city for some time. He then graduated from the well-known and far-famed Vanderbilt University, in 1882, thoroughly prepared to enter actively upon the discharge of his professional duties, and located at LaCross, where he practiced six years. Going to Lee County he remained only a short time when his health failed and he was obliged to come to Little Rock. Here he has resided since February, 1889. He is a member of the Arkansas State Medical Society, Pulaski County Medical Society and other medical associations. He owns considerable real estate in Little Rock. His father, O. F. Watkins, is a native of Tennessee, receiving his education in Franklin, that State. He graduated from Louisville University, and later married the mother of the subject of this sketch, Miss Elizabeth Martin, who bore him twelve children, ten now living. The father then located in Alabama, but later came west and made his home in Izard County, where he has resided since 1844. He has been retired since the close of the war, and has given his time to farming and stock raising, being one of the largest land owners in his county. The mother is still living. Grandfather Watkins was born in North Carolina, was of Irish descent, was a farmer, and died near Nashville at the age of eighty years. He was the owner of a good property. Grandfather Martin was from Missouri, came to Arkansas and located in Izard County, where he died in 1848.