Elizabeth Watkins (mai ba da agaji)

Elizabeth Watkins (mai ba da agaji)
Rayuwa
Haihuwa	1861
ƙasa	Tarayyar Amurka
Mutuwa	1939
Sana'a
Sana'a	philanthropist (en)

Elizabeth Josephine Watkins (1861-1939) ta kasance mai ba da agaji, wanda aka fi sani da tallafawa asibitoci da dakunan karatu a Lawrence, Kansas.

An haife ta Elizabeth Josephine Miller a New Paris, Ohio a shekara ta 1861. Iyalinta sun koma Lawrence, Kansas a 1872, inda ta halarci makarantar shirye-shirye a Jami'ar Kansas. A shekara ta 1875, mutuwar mahaifinta ta tilasta mata barin makaranta kuma ta sami aiki don tallafa wa iyalinta kudi. Ta yi aiki a J.B. Watkins Land and Mortgage Company, inda ta zama sakatariyar mai arziki da ya kafa kamfanin kuma shugaban, Jabez Bunting Watkins . A cikin 1909, mahaifiyar Elizabeth Miller ta mutu, kuma ta auri J.B. Watkins . J.B. ya mutu a 1921 kuma ya bar duk dukiyarsa ta dala miliyan 2.4 ga Elizabeth Watkins .

Babban gudummawar Watkins sun haɗa da gina Watkins Scholarship Hall a KU (1926), Lawrence Memorial Hospital (1928), Watkins Memorial Hospital (1931), Watkins Nurses Home (1937), da Miller Scholarship hall a KU (1937). Ta kuma ba da gudummawar Ginin Bankin Watkins ga Birnin Lawrence a 1929 (dukiyar da ta fara mallakar mijinta ta hanyar rawar da ya taka a matsayin shugaban Bankin Watkin). An yi amfani da wannan ginin a matsayin Lawrence City Hall har zuwa 1970, lokacin da aka sauya shi zuwa Douglas County Historical Society, wadda yanzu ke gudanar da Gidan Tarihi na Elizabeth Miller Watkins a can.

Elizabeth Watkins ta mutu a shekara ta 1939. Ta ba da dukiya mai yawa ga Jami'ar Kansas, gami da gidanta, wanda yanzu shine gidan Shugaban kasa. Ana gudanar da takardunta tare da na mijinta a cikin KU Kenneth Spencer Research Library .