CLASS OF 1893

Dr. John William Watson was born in Lawrence, Mass., July 8, 1870, and died June 23, 1917, at the New England Deaconess Hospital, Brookline, Mass., following an operation for appendicitis. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, from Dartmouth in the class of 1893, and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, Md. He practiced his profession in West Hartford, Vt., Beverly, Mass., and South Brain-tree, Mass., until three years ago, when he retired because of impaired health and located in Boston, being a member of the board of instruction of the medical and dental schools of Tufts College and acting as assistant to the medical examiner for the Suffolk South District. Doctor Watson was a member of state and national medical associations, of the Masonic and I.O.O.F. fraternities, and of the Congregational church, and had held office in the Massachusetts State Sunday

School Association, a work in which he was much interested. He was an earnest student in his profession, and several of his contributions to medical journals and addresses before medical societies were published in pamphlet form. He married September 3, 1901, Miss Cassina M. Jones of Hanover, N. H., who survives him, as do his mother, sister, and brother, Rev. Albert P. Watson '97, of East Braintree, Mass.