BIOGRAPHIES:  David S. WATSON, Hale Township, Trempealeau Co., WI

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DAVID S. WATSON, farmer, See. 24, town of Hale, P. O.
Whitehall; was born in Perrysburg, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. Left
there at the age of twenty-one years and came West with his
parents, settling in Genesee, Waukesha Co., Wis., in 1842. He
there worked at carpentering until 1861, with the exception of
two years that he was in California mining. He held the office
of Assessor in Waukesha Co., and was Town Clerk, Justice of the
Peace and School Commissioner under the old Territorial laws.
Mr. Watson moved to Trempealeau Co. on his farm, which he had
entered previous to his moving there. He has held various offices
in the town of Hale, having been Justice of the Peace, Clerk
and Chairman of Town Board eight years, and Chairman of County
Board two years; he is a member of A., F. & A. M., also of the
I.0.O.F., Trempealeau Valley Lodge, No. 249.

--Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 1042

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