BIO:  Lewis Hyers WATTS, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Carroll Township, Pg 88

LEWIS HYERS WATTS, son of Hiram and Sarah Ann Watts, of Upper Allen Township, 
Cumberland County, was born June 21, 1850, and is of English and German descent.  
He was reared on a farm, but received a good education, and during the winter of 
1870-71 taught school in Penn Township, and in the winter of 1872, in Lower 
Allen Township, Cumberland County.  In the summer of 1873 he began reading 
medicine with Dr. J. W. Rupp, of New Cumberland; then began the drug business at 
the same place; he came to Dillsburgh in February, 1874, and opened on the 
corner of Baltimore and Harrisburg Streets; twenty months later he removed to 
opposite the Nelson House, on Baltimore Street, remained there four years and 
four months, and then took his present store on the same street, where he has 
met with abundant success.  August 8, 1871, he married Mary F., daughter of 
David H. and Mary Miller, of Northumberland County; to this union have been born 
two children:  Leon Lewis (deceased) and Amy Alda.  Mr. and Mrs. Watts are 
members of the Presbyterian Church.