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George F. Watson
GEORGE F. WATSON, lumberman, Tionesta, was born in what is now Kingsley
township, Forest Co., Penn., October 20, 1848, and is a son of Francis and
Cordelia (Johnson) Watson. His paternal grandfather, Robert Watson, was a
native of Ireland, and a pioneer of Titusville, Penn., where he lived and
died, and his maternal grandfather, John Johnson, was a native of Vermont, and
a pioneer of Venango county. Francis Watson was born in Titusville, Penn., in
1816, and in early manhood located in Tionesta, where he followed the rivers
as a pilot for some years; then engaged in lumbering for twenty years. Since
1869 he has resided in Kingsley township, Forest county, with his son, John G.
His children were five in number: George F., William H., John G., Harvey B.
and Rebecca (Mrs. Humphrey Downing). George F. Watson was reared in Kingsley
township, receiving his education in the common schools, and at Neillstown
Academy. He began life as a lumberman with his father-in-law, T. B. Root, and
later was associated with his brother-in-law, Aaron Root, and since 1887 has
been associated in business with T. B. Collins, under the firm name of Collins
& Watson, now operating a mill at Pine Hollow and turning out from three
to four million feet of lumber per annum. Mr. Watson married in September,
1868, Anna, daughter of Aaron B. and Elizabeth (Zuende1) Root, early settlers
of Green township, and by her has five children: Harry B., Minnie, Vernie,
Cora and Georgiana. Mr. Watson is a member of the I. O. O. F. Politically he
is a Democrat, and an advocate of prohibition.Source: Page(s) 940-941, Chapter 15 Biographical Sketches – Tionesta Township
and Borough of Tionesta
Hickory and Harmony Townships
History of Counties of McKean, Elk and Forest, Pennsylvania.
Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co., 1890.
Transcribed December 2005 by Nathan Zipfel for the Forest County Genealogy
Project
Published 2005 by the Forest County Pennsylvania Genealogy Project
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