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George W. Watson
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GEORGE W. WATSON, farmer, P. O. Hayfield, was born in Hayfield Township, this county, June 2, 1824, son of William and Magdalena (Cole) Watson. William was a native of Killymallaugh, County Derry, Ireland, and settled in Hayfield Township in 1818. He was a son of George Watson. The maternal grandfather of our subject was Conrad Cole, who settled in Hayfield Township in 1802. William Watson was a linen weaver by trade, and came to America with the determination to better his condition, and in 1825 he settled on the farm now occupied by our subject, which he cleared and improved with the assistance of his boys. He was a man of stern convictions; an upright citizen. He died in 1858 at the age of sixty-seven. The subject of this sketch was married July 4, 1850, to Mary, daughter of Israel and Catherine (Minium) Berlin, by whom he has four children: Adelia (Mrs. William A. Selby), John C., Alvira (Mrs. Edgar S. Harroun) and Charles A. Israel Berlin was a soldier in the war of 1812, and his father, Isaac Berlin, a soldier in the Revolution. He settled in Woodcock Township in 1807. Our subject resides on the old Watson homestead, where he has always lived with the exception of ten years. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and the State Police; has held nearly all the offices in the gift of his township; was elected County Commissioner in 1872, serving one term; in politics he is a Republican. A
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