Biographical Sketch of Dr. Lorenzo T. Watson, Greene County, Missouri,
Springfield

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Dr. Watson is the son of Barnett and Jane (Holloway) Watson, and was
born September 17th, 1833, in Monroe County, Tenn.  He is the second
child of a family of twelve children.  He was educated in his native
county at Hiwasse College, attending five years.  In 1851-52 and '53,
he taught school in Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina.  He left 
Tennessee upon the 10th day of October, 1853 and reached Greene County
Missouri, November 20th, on foot, having walked the entire distance.
He taught school in Cass and Robberson townships for two years.  He
then studied medicine in the office of Dr. Clinton, of Ash Grove, for
one year.  In the fall of 1856 he went to McDowell's College, St. 
Louis, and took one course of lectures.  He then went to Hartsville,
Wright County, Mo., and practiced medicine until the fall of 1858, 
when he returned to the same medical college and graduated in March,
1859.  He then returned to Hartsville and practiced his profession
until the war broke out, when he was appointed assistant surgeon of 
the 24th Missouri Volunteers, Union Army.  He was afterward surgeon
of the M. S. M.  He was in the service about three years, and then
came to Springfield and engaged in the mercantile business.  He re-
mained in business in the city about three years, and then moved out
to his farm in Cass township, where he lived until 1881, when he came
back and moved into the house where he now lives, on South street,
said to be one of the first brick houses built in the city.  Dr. Wat-
son was married in August, 1865, to Miss Josephine Massey.  They were
blest with one child, Eddie.  The doctor's parents came to Missouri
in 1851, and settled in Cass township.  His father died in 1861, and
his mother in 1882, at the age of sixty-nine.

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