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John Livingston Watson
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Land agent.
Born at Rochester, Minnesota on 23 February 1871, son of J. P. and Amelia Watson, he was educated at Minnesota public schools. In 1892, he began working as a hardware merchant in Minnesota and came to Winnipeg in 1904 where he engaged in colonization work for the Canadian Northern Railway Company. In 1911, he was President of the John L. Watson Land Company, located at 435 Main Street, specializing in farm lands in the Winnipeg and Yorkton (Saskatchewan) districts.
In 1914, at the start of the First World War, he returned to the United States and, in 1915, opened the Watson Land Company real estate office at Great Falls, Montana.
He was married twice, first on 20 May 1896 to Maud W. Howry at Wahpeton, North Dakota with whom he had a son, Wilbur Howry Watson (1897-1955). His second wife was Hulda Anderson (1887-1957). He was a member of the St. Paul Club, Commercial Club, AF & AM, and Anglican church. He lived at 15 Kennedy Street, Winnipeg.
He died at Great Falls, Montana in February 1941 and was buried in the Highland Cemetery at Great Falls.
Who’s Who in Western Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of Western Canada, Volume 1, edited by C. W. Parker, Vancouver: Canadian Press Association, 1911.
Obituary, Great Falls Tribune, 18 February 1941, page 12.
Obituary [Wilbur Howry Watson], Los Angeles Times, 27 May 1955, page 33.
Obituary [Hulda Anderson Watson], Great Falls Tribune, 19 March 1957, page 16.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Darryl Toews.
Page revised: 11 July 2024
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