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Watkins, William Brown – Watson, Henry Clay

Watkins, William Brown

philologist, author, was born May 2, 1834, in Bridgeport, Ohio. From 1868 till 1872 he was presiding elder at Steubenville, Ohio, after which he was stationed in Pittsburg for nine years. He is a reader of the historical dictionary of the Philological society now in course of publication in London, and for many years has been preparing an Etymological Dictionary of American Geographical Names.

Watkinson, David

philanthropist, was born Jan. 17, 1778, in England. By his will he gave $40,000 to the Hartford hospital, $20,000 to the orphan asylum, $40,000 for the foundation of a juvenile asylum and farm school for neglected and abandoned children, and $100,000 for a library of reference in connection with the Connecticut Historical society, also making the trustees of the library of reference residuary legatees of his estate. He died Dec. 13, 1857, in Hartford, Conn.

Watrous, John C

lawyer, jurist, was born in 1806 in Colchester, Conn.

He was attorney-general of the republic of Texas; and when it became a state was made judge of the United States court for the eastern district of the state, serving until 1869. He died June 17, 1874, in Baltimore, Md.

Watson, Alfred Augustin

bishop of East Carolina, was born Aug. 21, 1818, in New York city. He served as chaplain to the second regiment of North Carolina state troops from 1861 to 1863, when he was elected assistant to Bishop Atkinson, in charge of St. James's church, Wilmington, N. C., of which he became rector in 1864, and served there until his elevation to the episcopate.

Watson, Benjamin Frank

soldier, journalist, lawyer, was born April 30, 1826, in Warner, N. H. He was editor and proprietor of the Lawrence Sentinel, postmaster of the city, was nominated for mayor, and subsequently elected city solicitor. He was major of the sixth regiment of Massachusetts militia.

Watson, Beriah Andre

physician, author, was born March 26, 1836, in Lake George, N. Y. He is a physician of Jersey City, and the author of Amputations and their Complications; and The Sportsman's Paradise, or the Lake Lands of Canada.

Watson, Cooper K

congressman, was born in Ohio. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1855 to 1857.

Watson, David H

journalist, lawyer, was born April 25, 1855, in Fulton county, Ill. He has filled various public omces of trust in Missouri; and is now the editor of The Record of Cabool. He has contributed extensively to current literature on various subjects.

Watson, Elkanah

agriculturist, author. He was a noted traveler and agriculturist, and the author of Men and Times of the Revolution, his best-known work, which is mainly autobiographic.

Other works of his are, Tour in Holland in 1784; History of the Canals in the State of New York from 1788 to 1819; Rise of Modern Agricultural Societies; and History of Agricultural Societies on the Berkshire System. He died Dec. 5, 1842, in Port Kent, N. Y.

Watson, Fletcher B

soldier, educator, lawyer, was born Nov. 27, 1841, in Chatham, Va. During the civil war he served as a sergeant in the confederate army. He has been superintendent of schools, clerk of circuit court; for years was engaged in journalistic work; and is now a prominent lawyer in his native city.

Watson, Henry Clay

journalist, author, was born in 1831 in Maryland.

He was a journalist of Philadelphia, and subsequently of California, and the author of Campfires of the Revolution; Campfires of Napoleon; Romance of History; Lives of the Presidents; Nights in a Block-House; Old Bell of Independence; The Yankee Teapot; Heroic Women of History; and Universal Naval History.

He died July 10, 1869, in Sacramento, Cal.