About Don Alonzo Watson
Lived 1807 – 1892 (aged 84). Don Alonzo Watson was an American businessperson.
Don Alonzo Watson (June 15, 1807 – January 1, 1892) was a Rochester, New York businessman and philanthropist who, with Hiram Sibley helped found Western Union.
Biography Don Alonzo Watson was born in Palmer, Massachusetts on June 15, 1807.
He was educated at public schools, and trained as a machinist in Boston. In 1832,he moved to Honeoye Falls, New York, where he met Hiram Sibley. They were partners in a profitable machinery business for eight years. Watson also endowed a professorship to the University of Rochester in acknowledgment of the college's achievements in political science and history.
He died at his home in Rochester on January 1, 1892, and was buried near Sibley in Mount Hope Cemetery.
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American businessman and philanthropist (1807–1892)
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Don Alonzo Watson was born on 15 June 1807 in Palmer.
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Don Alonzo Watson died on 1 January 1892 in Rochester.
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