Bio of WATSON, Dr. James Alfred, Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical


Vol III, pg 814
JAMES ALFRED WATSON, M. D.
Dr. James Alfred Watson, a leading representative of the medical profession in
Minneapolis, has specialized in the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose
and throat for about twenty-two years and has won a well-merited reputation in
his chosen field. He was born in Longford, Ireland, and received his early
education in the public schools of his native country, being a youth of
seventeen when he accompanied his parents to the new world. Having determined
upon a professional career, he began preparation for the practice of medicine as
a student in Manitoba University, from which he was graduated in 1895. He then
removed to Yellow Medicine county, Minnesota, where he engaged in general
medical practice until 1899, when he went to New York for postgraduate work and
subsequently continued his studies abroad, going to Vienna, Austria. Upon
returning to the United States he immediately took up work as an
ophthalmologist, otologist, rhinologist and laryngologist and through the
inter­vening years to the present has been accorded a gratifying practice in the
field of his specialty. He has contributed to the literature of the profession
as the author of numerous articles which have appeared in many of the leading
medical journals and he is a member of the staff of the Fairview, Asbury and
Hill Crest Hospitals of Minneapolis. He keeps in touch with the most advanced
methods and discoveries of the science of healing through his identification
with the American Medical Association, the Minnesota State Medical Association,
the Hennepin County Medical Society, the American College of Surgeons, the
American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology and the Minnesota Academy
of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology, hav­ing served as president of the last
named for one year. For many years he was professor of oto-laryngology in
Hamline University but resigned the chair when this department was merged with
the University of Minnesota. In association with Dr. Eugene S. Strout, Dr. W. S.
Macnie and Dr. W. E. Patterson, all physicians of the highest standing, he
organized the Minneapolis Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic.
In 1900 Dr. Watson was united in marriage to Miss Lulu Coghlan, a daughter of
James A. and Isabel Coghlan, the former a well known agriculturist of Yellow
Medicine county, this state. Dr. and Mrs. Watson have become the parents of four
children, as follows: Cecil James, who was born in 1901 and is now a student in
the medical department of the University of Minnesota; Alfred Leland, whose
birth occurred in 1908 and who is a high school pupil; Eleanor Isabel, whose
natal year was 1914; and James Alfred, born in 1919. The family residence is at
No. 2100 Irving avenue South. The Doctor belongs to the Minneapolis Athletic
Club and fraternally is identified with the Masons, while his religious faith is
indicated by his membership in the Hennepin Avenue Methodist Episcopal church.