William Watkins Reid, Sr.

REID, William Watkins, Sr. b. Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, Ireland, 15 October 1890; d. Wesley Village, Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania, 18 February 1983. The Reid family emigrated to the United States in 1900, and lived from 1904 to 1979 on Long Island, New York. William Watkins attended New York University (BA, 1915; MA in journalism, 1917), and was a journalist during World War I. In 1919 he joined the public relations and promotional staff of the Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, New York City, working there and in associated agencies of the church for more than forty years. He was known for his twenty years of writing weekly columns for secular newspapers, including...