Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Watson, Edward Minor December 20, 1874 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

EDWARD MINOR WATSON, Lawyer and Jurist. A graduate of the law department of 
the University of Mississippi and late private secretary to a United States 
senator, Edward M. Watson found his life work in the profession of the law.
  Judge Watson was graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1897 with 
the degree of LL.B., and began his professional career at Oxford, Miss., 
practicing there for several years. He then accepted a position in Washington, 
D.C., as private secretary for a Mississippi senator. While living in the 
national capital he met many residents of Hawaii who fired him with a keen 
desire to come to the islands.
  In 1901 he arrived in Honolulu and shortly thereafter became associated with 
Judge A. S. Humphreys and Frank E. Thompson in the law firm of Humphreys, 
Thompson and Watson. This continued but a short time, and Judge Watson 
practised by himself until 1911, when he became a member of the firm of 
Thompson, Wilder, Watson and Lymer.
  Judge Watson was appointed to the Supreme Court of the Territory in 1913 by 
the late President Woodrow Wilson, serving until 1916, when he retired to 
private practise in partnership with Judge Charles F. Clemons. He was recently 
associated with Judge W. B. Lymer, now attorney general, in the firm of Watson 
and Lymer, which has participated in some of the largest and most important 
litigation in the Territory, and at present is practicing alone.
  Judge Watson was a member of the commission that framed the County Act for 
Hawaii in 1904, and in 1908, 1912 and 1920 he attended the Democratic national 
conventions as one of the delegates from Hawaii. He holds membership in the D. 
K. E. fraternity and University Club.
  Born in Holly Springs, Miss., Dec. 20, 1874, Judge Watson is the son of 
Edward Minor and Lillie Perrin (Moore) Watson. He was educated in the public 
schools of Holly Springs and Washington, D.C.; A. and M. College of 
Mississippi and the University of Mississippi. In 1905 he married Louisa 
Bradley of Visalia, Calif., and they have two daughters, Virginia Bradley and 
Lillie Moore Watson.


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