Henry L. Watson

Henry L. Watson, Secretary and member of the Ashton Lumber Company, located at Dewing's Station, Le Roy Township, was born April 9, 1857, in Onondaga Co., N.Y. His father, John watson, was a descendant from New England ancestry and was born in New York. He cam thence with his family to Grand Ledge, Mich., where he was extensively engaged in lumbering. His mother, Rebecca J. (Lee) Watson, is also a native of the Empire State, and both parents are now resident at this place.

Mr. Watson was 10 years of age when his father transferred his family and interests to Michigan, where they settled in Eaton County, in the vicinity of Lansing. Thence they went later to Grand Ledge, where Mr. Watson completed his education. When he was 19 years of age he became self-sustaining and engaged as a saw-mill assistant in Ashland Township, Newaygo County. He went thence to Baldwin, Lake County, where he engaged in teaching in the public schools. Eventually he engaged with Dewing & Sons in the lumber business at Baldwin, their interests being transferred to Le Roy Township, this county, in the fall of 1880. In the spring of 1883 the Ashton Lumber Company was organized, of which Mr. Watson was made Secretary, holding equal shares in the profits of the business. Since the organization, he has acted as resident manager. He is an adherent of the Republican party, and is Justice of the Peace.

He was married Sept. 23, 1877, at Grand Ledge, to Myra J. Lamson, and they have three children, - Edward H., Flora E. and Lee. The parents of Mrs. Watson, Henry and Harriet (Robinson) Lamson, were born respectively in Vermont and New York, and were farmers. The father is deceased. Mrs. Watson was born June 11, 1858, in Grand Ledge, where she was reared to womanhood.

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