Watson, James Clemson, Dd

Watson, James Clemson, D.D.

a Presbyterian minister, was born in Donegal township, Lancastey County, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1805. He graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1827; studied at Princeton Theological Seminary between two. and three years; was licensed in 1830, and ordained, in 1832, pastor of the united churches of Gettysburg and Great Conewago, Pennsylvania, where he labored until 1849; then became pastor at Clinton, N.J.; next at Kingston in 1851, and finally in 1854 at Milton, Pennsylvania, where he died, August 31, 1880. See Naecrol. Report of Princeton Theol. Sem. 1881, page 31.