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Below is a family biography included in the Biographical Annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania published in 1904 by T. S. Benham & Company and The Lewis Publishing Company; Elwood Roberts, Editor. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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DR. FRANKLIN WATSON, physician and surgeon, of Willow Grove, is a native of Langhorne, in Middletown township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He is the son of Joseph John and Jane T. (Wildman) Watson. He was born October 23, 1869. His mother’s father was John Wildman, at one time associate judge in Bucks county, and president of the Langhorne National Bank.
Dr. Watson obtained his education at the Friends’ school, Langhorne, and in Philadelphia, where he attended the Friends’ Central School. He entered on a four years’ course at the Hahnemann Homeopathic Medical College in Philadelphia, graduating May 12, 1897. Since that date he has been engaged continuously in the practice of his profession at Willow Grove, where he has built up a considerable practice.
Dr. Watson is a member of the Twenty-third Ward Homeopathic Medical Society of Philadelphia; of the Germantown Homeopathic Medical Society, and of the Tri-County Homeopathic Medical Society. In politics he is a Republican. He has filled the position of township auditor for four years. His ancestors were all members of the Society of Friends for many generations, and he very naturally clings to that faith, attending Horsham meeting. He is a progressive citizen, and is highly esteemed by the community in which he lives.
The Wildmans and Watsons are both old Bucks county families, whose ancestors came to this country in the time of William Penn.
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