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W D Wilkins who built varied ventures in West Texas
W D Wilkins began in Paducah Texas at age twelve with a gasoline wagon and expanded into farming grocery meat markets and scrap iron buying. He moved to Lubbock in 1927 and later diversified into Go-Devils fabricating knives hardware furniture and carpet mills forming several partnerships and a distributing company over 35 years in West Texas.
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W. D. Wilkins
Paducah
Texas
Ford County
Cottle County
Lubbock
Maxwell
Plains
West Texas
E. W. Becknell
Glenn Lawson
Becknell-Wilkins Wholesale Hardware Company
H. L. Phares
Phares and Wilkins
T. O. Wilkins
W. C. Warren
Mississippi River
W. D. Wilkins Distributing Company