[p. 981] of the firm of Wilkins Bros. & Company, dealers in dry goods, shoes and general notions, at New Castle, is one of the progressive merchants and enterprising business men of this city. Mr. Wilkins was born in 1883 at West Elizabeth, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of John Wilkins, who is a superintendent for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
H. B. Wilkins was reared in Allegheny County and was educated in excellent schools at McKeesport and Allegheny City and later took a business course at the Woonsocket Business University, Woonsocket, R. I. After completing his education Mr. Wilkins accepted a position as bookkeeper and cashier with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, which he filled for three years. He then turned his attention to the study of electricity, but met with an accident which changed his career, and in 1905 he came to New Castle. Here he established his present business and has the sole charge, displaying unusual business tact and executive ability for one of his years. He is a member of the Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church and takes an active interest in Sunday-school work, teaching one of the classes. Although his residence in this city is covered by a period of but a few years, he has displayed the qualities which have attracted warm personal friends to him on every side.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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