Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Watson, Dr John S 
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Author: Bio/Gen Record LaSalle/Grundy 1900

JOHN S. WATSON, M. D.

The influence in any community of the reputable and conscientious family 
physician is not an uncertain or a circumscribed one. The family doctor has 
more intimate relations with the people than any one else, not excepting even 
the clergyman. Among the well-known physicians and surgeons of Grundy county 
and of a large part of Illinois is Dr. John S. Watson, of Minooka.

Doctor Watson was born at Ottawa, in the province of Ontario, Canada, in 1845. 
He grew to manhood in his native place and received a liberal literary 
education at McGill University, at Montreal. In 1865 he came to Chicago with 
his parents, and there the latter passed the rest of their lives. Dr. Watson 
is one of six children, comprising three brothers and three sisters. Southwell 
Watson, the oldest of the brothers, is a resident of Atlantic, Iowa. Joseph T. 
is a resident of Chicago, as are the three sisters,—Helen, Lydia and Fanny. 
For some time previous to the great Chicago fire Dr. Watson was engaged in the 
drug business in that city, partly as a preparation for his medical education, 
and was a victim of that destructive conflagration. The first course of 
medical lectures which he attended was at Rush Medical College, which was 
followed by two more courses at Bennett College, at which institution he was 
graduated in the class of 1875.

He began the practice of his profession in Chicago, but soon afterward located 
at Minooka and has for twenty-five years been the leading physician in that 
part of Grundy county and adjoining sections of bordering counties. His rides 
have covered a radius of many miles with Minooka as a center. His professional 
career has been a remarkably successful one and he occupies a place in the 
front rank of the physicians and surgeons of Illinois. In connection with his 
practice he manages a fine drug store at Minooka.

Dr. Watson was married in Chicago, Illinois, in 1867, to Miss Anna Bell, of 
that city. They are the parents of five daughters, all of whom have been given 
excellent opportunities for culture and are accomplished ladies of many graces 
and the most substantial intellectual equipment. The eldest two, Franc and 
Lottie B., are graduates of the Northwestern University, and Lorine is a 
graduate of the school of oratory which, is connected with the above mentioned 
institution. Mildred, the fourth in order of birth, is now a student of the 
university. Ethel, the youngest, is a pupil of the Minooka public school.

Besides being a prominent physician, Dr. Watson is a successful business man, 
and is numbered with the substantial citizens of the county in a financial 
way. He is the owner of valuable town property and several fine farms. As a 
citizen he is helpful and enterprising, and personally as well as 
professionally is held in high esteem. He was made a Mason many years ago and 
is well advanced in the order.


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Source:  Biographical and Genealogical Record of La Salle and Grundy County, 
Illinois, Volume 11, Chicago, 1900, p733-734

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