Biography

10/25/1783 - 11/1865

WATSON, William, a Representative from Bucks County; born, October 25, 1783 in Kirkwood, Camden County, NJ; farmer; trustee, Hughesian Free School; elected, commissioner, Bucks County (1823-1824); elected as a National Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1833-1834 term; reelected to the House as a Whig for the 1835-1836 term; died, November of 1865 in Buckingham, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; interred, Doylestown Cemetery, Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.