Shelby County AlArchives Biographies.....Watrous, Daniel W. 1825 - 
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Author: "Alabama:  Her History, Resources, War Record and Public Men From 1540 to 1872," by Willis Brewer, published 1872, page 520

Daniel E. Watrous came to Shelby about the year 1825.  A native of Vermont, he 
was born about the year 1796, was well educated and was an attorney when he 
settled at Montevallo.  He was a successful practitioner, and held the leading 
position at the bar of the county for many years.  In 1837 he entered the 
senate from Shelby and Bibb, and remained in that body by successive elections 
for sixteen years, save one session.  In 1845 he was the nominee of his party 
for congress, but Hon. W. L. Yancy was successful in the canvass that 
followed.  In 1856 he moved to Texas, where he died a few years ago.  Mr. 
Watrous was a sparely built man with well-defined facial features.  He was a 
man of unsullied integrity, rigid sense of propriety, cultivated and scholarly 
mind, and with urbane manners.  There have been few citizens of Shelby so 
useful and exemplary.  His brother, Charles, was a federal district judge in 
Texas.

Additional Comments:
The 1850 US Census, Shelby County, Alabama, page 171A, lines 24-26 show Daniel 
E. Watrous, age 58, a lawyer born in Conn., Lydia A. Watrous, age 77, born in 
Conn., and Nancy B. Watrous, age 45, born in Conn.  It appears that Daniel did 
not marry and that Lydia was his mother and Nancy his sister.

The 1860 US Census, Travis County, Texas, Austin, page 254, line 15, shows a D. 
E. Watrous, age 60, born in Connecticut, a farmer.  

His brother, John Charls Waltrous, age 55, born in Connecticut, is shown on 
page 479B of the 1860 Galveston County Census, Galveston.  See the biography 
for John Charles at:
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/WW/fwa71.html

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