San Benito-Yuba-San Luis Obispo County CA Archives Biographies.....Watson, James 1831 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

JAMES WATSON, a prosperous farmer and influential citizen of San Benito county,
California, residing near Paicines, was born in Scott county, Virginia,
September 22, 1831. He is next to the oldest of the children of the well-known
pioneer Jacob Watson, who is prominently mentioned in various connections
elsewhere in this history. Upon coming to California, Mr. Watson 
first engaged in wagon freighting from Marysville to the mines, in 1855. Later
he lived in San Luis Obispo county, in the Santa Rosa valley, near Cambria,
where he lived for about twenty-one years, engaged in farming and stock-raising.
In 1884, he settled near Paicines, on Tres Pinos creek, being the first man to
locate in his section of the valley.

  He was married, in 1869, to Miss Hannah R. Carnack, who was born about twelve
miles from the World's Fair city of Chicago, and a daughter of Perry Carnack,
who came to California in 1855, and died near Paicines August 24, 1871. Mr. and
Mrs. Watson are useful members of the First Baptist Church of Paicines, and are
esteemed for their many good qualities.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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