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Watson, Clarence Wayland (1864-1940)
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Source: West Virginia and Its People, Volume III
Author: Thomas Condit Miller and Hu Maxwell

Volume III, Page 1074 

Hon. Clarence Wayland Watson, United States senator, son of James
Otis and Matilda (Lamb) Watson, was born May 8, 1864, at Fairmont,
West Virginia. He received a good education, beginning with the
public schools of his native city, and next at the Fairmont State
Normal School. He was busily engaged in coal mining and dealt in coal
lands until 1893, when he commenced opening mines in conjunction with
his brothers, which fact fitted him to take the place occupied by his
brother, J. E. Watson, when the latter's health failed. In 1900 he
formed the Fairmont Coal Mining Company for the purpose of selling
the output of the district, and in 1901, with his associates, he
purchased the companies forming the Fairmont Coal Company, and later
a control of the Consolidation Coal Company from the Baltimore & Ohio
Company, merging the Fairmont Coal Company and the Somerset Coal
Companies into the Consolidation Coal Company. He also bought a
controlling interest in the Northwestern Fuel Company's docks, giving
facilities on the Great Lakes as well as on the Atlantic seaboard,
Boston, Providence, etc. He has many other business interests,
including a stock farm with some of the finest horses in the world.
Politically Mr. Watson is a Democrat, and was elected to a seat in
the United States senate in 1910 from West Virginia. Having been
engaged all his active life in business of great importance, used to
dealing with corporations, and associated with men high in authority
and influence in the industrial world, he was naturally fitted for
this high position where he can best represent the interests of West
Virginia, his native state.

Mr. Watson married, October 10, 1894, Minnie Lee Owings. Mr. and Mrs.
Watson occupy the old Watson homestead, whereon stands the original
log house, erected more than one hundred years ago, and still in a
fine state of preservation. Nearby is their magnificent mansion,
within immense grounds.

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DEATH CERTIFICATE, Marion County WV, #4288
NAME: Minnie Owings Watson
DATE/PLACE OF DEATH: March 22, 1923 / Fairmont WV
DATE/PLACE OF BIRTH: June 5, 1865 / Maryland
MARITAL-STATUS: Married
FATHER: Thos. B. Owings (born in Maryland)
MOTHER: Margaretta Clark (born in Maryland)
BURIAL: Woodlawn Cemetery

Clarence Wayland Watson died on May 24, 1940 in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
while tending to Elk Horn Coal Company business.
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