Biography of Joseph S. Watson, page 117. History of Northeast Indiana: 
LaGrange, Steuben, Noble, and DeKalb Counties, Vol. II, under the editorial 
supervision of Ira Ford, Orville Stevens, William H. McEwen, and William H. 
McIntosh.  The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago and New York, 1920.

   Joseph S. Watson grew up on a farm and attended the district schools.  At 
the age of twenty-one he started out to earn his own way in the world.  For 
one winter he was a cattle feeder, and the fifty dollars he saved from that 
work he invested in two head of cattle and later traded that for land in 
Tennessee, where he lived for four and a half years. On returning to Indiana 
he acquired eighty acres in Allen County, Indiana, and he was a farmer in 
that locality for twelve years.  Since then he has extended his efforts as a 
farmer and businessman in Noble County, and now has a well modeled farm of 
160 acres.  He does general farming and stock raising. 
   Mr. Watson married in 1893 Dora Stephenson, of Allen County, Indiana, but 
a native of Paulding County, Ohio.   Mr. and Mrs. Watson are the parents of 
six children. Goldie, who finished her education in the college at Fort 
Wayne, is now general clerk with the firm of Ackerman & Hardenbrook.  Etha 
D. is a graduate of high school and of Manchester College, and also of the 
Indiana Business College at Fort Wayne, and is now connected with the 
General Delivery Company at Fort Wayne. Alva N., Emerson, Alice and Cora 
May are the younger children, all at home.  Mr. Watson is a republican in 
politics.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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