====== Watson, George A. ====== (1875-19 Nov. 1930), lawyer. (G. A. Watson) Born in Williamstown, GC. Parents: Rev. Peter Watson and his wife Margery Monro. In the spring of 1904, Watson was studying law in the Williamstown office of J. Clark Brown and by the fall he had gone to Toronto to study law at Osgoode Hall. (//Glengarry News// 20 May & 30 Sept. 1904) He had a B. A. degree. In 1907 he was called to the bar. Evidently he had a law practice at Williamstown, though the facts about its extent and duration are not clear. At any rate, over many years he was the township clerk of Charlottenburgh Township, and late in 1928, near the end of his life, he was appointed the police magistrate of Williamstown. (//Cornwall Standard// 6 Dec. 1928 & //Glengarry News// 7 Dec. 1928) Mason. Presbyterian. He died at his home in Williamstown, having reached only his mid-50s. The names of those present at his well attended funeral suggest a man of influential contacts, though his work as township clerk would have brought him into acquaintanceship with many. The //Glengarry News// obituary, which does not mention his legal career or qualifications, called him “an ardent Conservative”– words which are probably an important clue to his full importance in the GC life of his time. He was unmarried. His brothers Donald A. and Neill M. appear in the present dictionary. ---- //Glengarry News// 21 & 28 Nov. 1930 * Harkness 438 * Fraser, //Gravestones//, I, 173 [<6>]