William Wallace Watson (1845-1904)

Civil servant.

Born in Scotland on 7 January 1845, he came to Winnipeg in 1881. He was Western Manager of the Watson Manufacturing Company for many years. For a few years before his death, he served as Deputy Collector of Inland Revenue for Manitoba. He had two daughters, Agnes W. Watson (b 1871) and Maude Galbraith Watson (b 1872, wife of A. J. Andrews), and an adopted son, Ernest Watson (b 1892). He died at his home in East Kildonan on 2 October 1904 and was buried in St. John’s Cemetery.

Sources:

1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.

Death registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.

“Death called W. W. Watson”, Manitoba Free Press, 3 October 1904, page 7.

Profile revised: 1 December 2009

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