Watson Bequest

DARTMOUTH College is one of three New England institutions that will share a large part of the $7,000,000 estate left by John H. Watson Jr. '04 of Cleveland.

After certain specific bequests, the remainder of Mr. Watson's estate will be distributed as follows: one-quarter to Dartmouth; one-quarter to Harvard Law School; three-eighths to St. Johnsbury (Vermont) Academy, and one-eighth to the Cleveland Museum of Health and Hygiene.

Mr. Watson died last August at the age of 79. He practiced law throughout his life in Cleveland, and had been a director of the White Motor Company, the Studebaker Corporation, the Ohio Crankshaft Company, the Corrigan McKinney Steel Company, the Austin Power Company, the Bishop and Babcock Manufacturing Company, the True Temper Corporation and others. He was one of the founders of the Dartmouth Club of Cleveland and a former president of the Club.

The Watson bequest will take its place as one of the largest bequests to Dartmouth. Three other bequests to the College have exceeded $1,000,000: the bequest of William N. Cohen of the Class of 1879; the bequest of Edwin W. Sanborn of the Class of 1878; and the bequest of Leon Williams of the Class of 1915.