Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Watkins Pepper – J.R. Watkins, Winona, Minnesota. Watkins Incorporated is a manufacturer of health remedies, baking products, and other household items. Founded in 1868, Watkins Incorporated is based in Winona, Minnesota, United States, which utilizes an omni-channel marketing strategy which includes a national retail sales force which focuses on selling to the retail channel as well as an ...
Joseph Ray Watkins (August 21, 1840 – December 21, 1911) was an American entrepreneur and founder of Watkins Incorporated with his homemade medical products – liniment, extracts, and salves.
Watkins joined the United States Army as first lieutenant of the 14th Infantry on May 14, 1861, was transferred to the 5th Cavalry on June 22, 1861, and became captain on July 17, 1862, and lieutenant-colonel of the 20th Infantry on July 28, 1866.
The 1868 United States elections was held on November 3, electing the members of the 41st United States Congress.The election took place during the Reconstruction Era, and many Southerners were barred from voting.
Watkins was born in about 1803 in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of William Watkins, a founding trustee of the Sharp Street Methodist Church. [1]Watkins attended the Bethel Charity School, which Daniel Coker founded as a school for black children in 1807, despite Maryland laws forbidding the education of black people. [2]
The 1865 Louisiana gubernatorial election was the second election to take place under the Louisiana Constitution of 1864.As a result of this election James Madison Wells was re-elected Governor of Louisiana.
Governor of Alabama: Robert M. Patton (until July 24), William Hugh Smith (starting July 24); Governor of Arkansas: Isaac Murphy (until July 2), Powell Clayton (starting July 2)
In the wake of the Civil War, the civil rights of former slaves was a hotly debated issue in the Union. Grant supported the Reconstruction plans of the Radical Republicans in Congress, which favored the 14th Amendment, with full citizenship and civil rights for freedmen, including suffrage (the right to vote) for former slaves.