Edward Biddle [2] Watts

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Husband Edward Biddle [2] Watts ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 13 Sep 1851 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 1 4
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         Father: Hon. Frederick Watts (1801-1889) 5 6 7 8 9
         Mother: Henrietta Ege (      -1890) 2 7 8 9

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General Notes: Husband - Edward Biddle [2] Watts

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In 1865 he entered Dr. Lyons' private school at West Haverford, Pennsylvania, ten miles west of Philadelphia, where he remained until 1868, when he went to Cheshire, and entered the Episcopal Academy of the state, and there pursued his studies until 1869, when, at the request of Dr. Horton, the principal of that institute, he accompanied him on a tour in Europe. Immediately upon his return he entered Trinity College at Hartford, Connecticut, from which institution he was graduated in 1873. He returned to Carlisle and read law with John Hays, an attorney of the place, and was admitted to the bar of Pennsylvania, in 1875, and at once entered on the practice of his profession. In 1885 he was appointed attorney for the county commissioners of Cumberland County. [HCC 1886, 400]

From 1885 to 1888 he served as attorney to the Cumberland county commissioners, and during that period assisted that board of public officials in holding down the public expenses and reducing taxation. In 1890 he was elected burgess of Carlisle. He was interested in the Cumberland Valley railroad, and a member of its board of directors.
Long connected with the National Guard of Pennsylvania, he was captain of Company G, 8th Regiment, for eight years, and in 1893 was promoted to major, and held that rank for five years. When in the spring of 1898 his regiment volunteered for the Spanish-American war he was made its lieutenant-colonel, and as such served until mustered out of service at the close of the war. Thereafter he gave his time and attention to his profession and to civil duties. In politics, Colonel Watts was a Republican, firm in his convictions, but liberal in his treatment of the views of others. In religion, he was an Episcopalian, and held the position of vestryman in St. John's Episcopal Church, of Carlisle. [BACC, 195]

1 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 400.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 194.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 263.

4 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 195.

5 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 168, 399.

6 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 193.

7 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 262.

8 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 276.

9 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 423.