Brief Life History of Walton Matthew
When Walton Matthew Watson Sr was born on 27 November 1901, in North Hero, Grand Isle, Vermont, United States, his father, Matthew Walton Watson, was 30 and his mother, Mary Sophia Byrd, was 21. He married Elizabeth Julia Childs on 27 July 1925, in Grand Isle, Grand Isle, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Lysander, Onondaga, New York, United States in 1930 and Baldwinsville, Onondaga, New York, United States in 1940. He died on 11 August 1954, in Lysander, Lysander, Onondaga, New York, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Baldwinsville, Onondaga, New York, United States.
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- Walton A Watson, "United States Census, 1930"
- Walton M Watson, "New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956"
- Walton Watson in entry for Elsie J Rupracht, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
Scottish, English, and Irish: patronymic meaning ‘son of Wat’, a pet form of Walter that was particularly common in Scotland and northern England. See Watt .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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