Early Life
Wilkins was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1901. His mother died when he was four after which Wilkins and his siblings were raised by an aunt and uncle in St. Paul Minnesota. Wilkins graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in sociology in 1923. In 1929, he married social worker Aminda "Minnie" Badeau; the couple had no children.
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