Walter Watson

Walter Watson (October 20, 1830 – April 3, 1900) was a Scottish-American banker.

Early life Watson was born on October 20, 1830, in Edinburgh, Scotland. As a boy, he attended Edinburgh High School.

Career Watson began his career with the Bank of Scotland at Edinburgh before heading in 1854 to the Province of Canada which was quickly growing in commercial and agricultural importance. He first went to London as manager of the Bank of British North America where he stayed for ten years (which merged with the Bank of Montreal in 1918). After ten years with Morton, Bliss & Co., he resigned to become the manager of the New York branch of the Bank of Montreal where he stayed for over twenty years, retiring in 1896. One of her sisters was married to Bishop Benjamin Cronyn and another was married to Francis Wolferstan Thomas of Molson's Bank. Together, Louisa and Walter were the parents of five children, including:

George Goodhue Hepburn Watson (1857–1925), who married Anne Townsend Barber (1857–1918), sister of Edwin Atlee Barber, in 1883. a banker with E.F. Hutton & Co. who married Annie Duncan (1867–1914) in 1892. After her death, he married Amy Berthold (1892–1961) in 1924. Mai Wolferstan St. Andrew Watson (1867-1888), who married George Washington Fuller (1863–1891).

Descendants Through his son George, he was a grandfather to Walter Malcolm Watson (1886–1961) and George Atlee Watson (1893–1937); and through his son Walter, he was a grandfather to William Whitewright Watson (1893–1969) and Mai Duncan Watson (1896–1958), who, in 1914, married (and divorced) Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (son of Theodore Frelinghuysen) and, in 1927, James Gordon Douglas.