MAHONING COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: WATSON, Samuel I. (published 1925)
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History of Ohio
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 195

        SAMUEL I. WATSON is a Youngstown business man, and nearly all his
commercial experience since early manhood has been with the mattress
manufacturing industry. He is an ex-service man.
        He was born at Allen in Copiah County, Mississippi, December 19,
1887, son of John M. and Willie (Osborne) Watson, his father a native of
Copiah County and his mother of Jefferson County, Mississippi. Both parents
are now deceased. Samuel I. Watson grew up in his native state, completing
grammar and high schools, and completed a course in a business university
at Bowling Green, Kentucky. Beginning in August, 1910, he was employed six
years in clerical work at Holden, West Virginia, and then at Huntington,
West Virginia, became bookkeeper for the Specialty Mattress Company. In
1918 the company sent him to Wheeling, West Virginia, as branch manager.
        In May, 1918, he enlisted and was put in training at Camp Logan,
Texas, from there being transferred in December, 1918, to Camp Pike,
Arkansas, and in April, 1919, was honorably discharged at Camp Sherman, Ohio.
        He then resumed work for his former company as bookkeeper at
Detroit, Michigan, but in November, 1919, came to Youngstown as manager of
the Sanitary Mattress Company, a branch of the Specialty Mattress Company.
        Mr. Watson married, February 8, 1921, Mildred M. Zimmerman, a
native of Youngstown. He is a Methodist, a republican in politics, has
filled the chairs in the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Mangham, Louisiana,
also belongs to the Woodmen of the World at Mangham, is a member of the
Youngstown Chamber of Commerce and the Youngstown Automobile Club.

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