BIOGRAPHY - HAYWOOD COUNTY NC     DAVID M. WATTS


From "History of North Washington" Published 1904
Transcribed by: Candy Grubb (candyg@theofficenet.com)


	David M. Watts, residing one mile south of Echo, Stevens county, is
engaged in farming and logging.  He was born in Canton, North Carolina, 
November 5, 1860.  His parents were David and Susan (Henderson) Watts,
natives of North Carolina.  They removed to east Tennessee, but returned to
North Carolina, where they now live.  They were the parents of seven child-
ren: Martha, wife of Melvin Christopher, of North Carolina; Dosha, married to 
Robert McElrath; Judson O.; Joseph; Roland; our subject, David M.; and 
William R., deceased.
	The education of our subject was received at Canton and Weaverville,
North Carolina, and in Tennessee.  At the age of twenty-two years he was 
teaching school, which occupation he continued four years.  He then traveled
for the Empire Stove Company ten years, and subsequently conducted a saw mill
until 1901, when he came to Washington and began farming where he now lives.
He is living on a quarter section of land, thirty acres of which is under 
cultivation, and he owns six head of cattle and three horses, comprising his
logging outfit.
	Mr. Watts was married in 1890 to Cora Furniss, born in Bastrop,
Louisiana, in 1869, at which place the ceremony was performed.  They have
three children, all residing at home, Jeffrey P., Furniss L., and Loy.  Mr.
Watts is a staunch Democrat and manifests a patriotic interest in all
affairs, and is in every way a worthy and highly respected citizen.  He is
a member of the A.F. & A.M., at Canton, North Carolina, and he and his wife
are consistent members of the Methodist church.
	From 1888 to 1892 Mr. Watts was in the general merchandise business 
in Dunsmore, North Carolina.  And, although a Democrat, he held through
President Harrison's administration the postmastership there.

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