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Birth:          20 Dec 1906 Newport, Herkimer Co., N.Y.
Death:          17 Dec 1989 Kings Park, Suffolk Co., N.Y.
Cause of Death: cancer

Notes
Reber Fam Tree on ancestry
1930 in Manhattan, N.Y. publisher
1940 in New York, N.Y. saleslady shopper
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/22/obituaries/armitage-watkins-83-was-a-literary-
agent.html
Armitage Watkins, a literary agent who represented such authors as Pamela L. 
Travers, Roald Dahl, Peter DeVries, Glendon Swarthout, Alan Moorehead and Bill 
Mauldin, died of cancer on Sunday at a nursing home in Kings Park, L.I. He was 83 
years old and lived in Manhattan and Cold Spring Harbor, L.I. 

Mr. Watkins was owner and president of A. Watkins Inc., a New York literary agency 
founded in 1907 by his mother, Ann Watkins, The agency, which Mr. Watkins joined in 
1945, also represented Sinclair Lewis, William Saroyan, Roger Burlingame, Frances H. 
Burnett, Kay Boyle and Wernher von Braun. He became owner and president in 1953 
and retired in 1987. 

Mr. Watkins was born in Newport, N.Y., and graduated from Yale College in 1928. He 
joined Charles E. Merrill & Company, educational publishers, in 1928. During World 
War II he was in intelligence, then became the foreign press officer for the State 
Department at the United Nations Conference in San Francisco. 

Mr. Watkins's wife, the former Mary White Merrill, died on Nov. 8. He is survived by a 
son, Eric, of St. Paul, Minn., and three grandchildren. 

Parents
WATKINS Hanbury Armitage ()
WHITON Angeline Bell ("Ann") ()

Siblings
WATKINS Armitage (20 Dec 1906 - 17 Dec 1989)

Marriage To MERRILL Mary White (10 Mar 1907 - 8 Nov 1989)
    m.  

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Parents
MERRILL Charles Edmund (1 Jan 1877 - 28 Jan 1942)
MOSES Ethel Revere (1878 - 1973)

Children by MERRILL Mary White 10 Mar 1907 - 8 Nov 1989
WATKINS Peter Merrill (28 Dec 1930 - 8 Apr 1983)
WATKINS Eric H. ()

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