BIO:  Dr. James G. WATSON, Mountpleasant Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 491

DR. JAMES G. WATSON, physican and surgeon, Bonneauville, was born August 1, 
1851, in Quincy, Franklin Co., Penn., son of Robert Watson, who was born in 
Washington Township, Franklin Co., Penn., from where his father, who was a 
farmer, had removed, in about 1820, to Hamiltonban Township, where he spent the 
balance of his days, dying March 22, 1869, at the ripe old age of one hundred 
and two years.  The grandfather of our subject was a native of Londonderry, 
Ireland, and came to America when fifty years old.  He was married here to Mrs. 
Mary Hindman (nee Gibson), who died aged sixty-eight, the mother of five 
children:  Robert, James and Eliza (twins), John and George.  Of these Robert, 
who has been a dentist in Fairfield, this county, about forty years, was married 
in Franklin County, Penn., to Hannah Mentzer, who has borne him five children, 
of whom four are living:  James G., John, Mrs. Anna E. Musselman, Dr. D. Stuart.  
He has taken quite an active part in local politics; has filled nearly every 
township office, and is one of its prominent citizens.  Our subject received his 
primary education in the county; then attended the Mercersburg College, Franklin 
County, Penn., and later the first session at the University of Pennsylvania, 
and second session at the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery, 
whence he graduated in the spring of 1876.  He then located at Montgomery 
Square, Montgomery Co., Penn., where he remained but eighteen months, however, 
and then went to Sabillasville, Md., and after three years practice came to 
Bonneauville, this county, in April, 1881, where he has enjoyed a lucrative 
practice ever since.  The Doctor was married, in Philadelphia, Penn., November 
18, 1875, to Miss Marie E., daughter of August Diehm, a native of Germany, and 
they have three children living:  Robert J., Anna L. and William Stuart.  Dr. 
and Mrs. Watson are members of the Reformed Church.  Politically he has always 
been a Democrat.