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WILLIAM SHIELDS WATT, ice-dealer, Wilkinsburg, was born in Allegheny, Westmoreland county, Pa., Jan. 6, 1847. His father, Alex. W. Watt, was born on the same farm in 1819, and continues to reside there. William Watt, father of the latter, was a son of George Watt, a native of Ireland, and was born in Adams county, Pa. He settled in Westmoreland county some years previous to 1809, where he was married. A. W. Watt is an elder in the U. P. Church, and has been a republican since James Buchanan’s time. His first wife, Martha McKee, bore him three sons and two daughters, and died in 1880, aged sixty-one years. In 1885 he married Bessie, sister of Robert Anderson (whose sketch appears elsewhere). William S. Watt, the eldest child, remained on the home farm till of age, came to Sterrett in 1872, and three years later rented the farm on which he had been employed, and engaged in dairying. In 1882 he bought five acres of land, on which he erected icehouses, and is doing a successful trade in milk and ice. Since twenty years old he has been a member of the U. P. Church, and has always been a republican. In 1875 Mr. Watt married Anna Mary Hazlett, a native of Allegheny City, and daughter of Robert and Jane (McKee) Hazlett, of Scotch-Irish descent.