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Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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igent and conscientious dis-charge of the duties of a private citizen. He is a member ofthe Democratic Club of this city, now the foremost social organi-zation of that party. In its affairs he has not sought to makehimself conspicuous, but his presence is always welcomed, andhis influence often materially felt. He is, as might naturally be expected, fond of out-of-doorsports, and is a generous patron of them. He is a member ofthe American Yacht Club, the Hudson River Boat Club, the Sub-urban Riding and Driving Club, the American Shetland PonyClub, the National Horse Show Association of America, Limited,and of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the affairs of allthese organizations he is an earnest and efficient participator. Mr. Watt was married at St. Thomass Protestant EpiscopalChurch, in this city, on November 8, 1888, to Miss Annie S.Cary. They have five children, namely : Annie Pinckney Watt,Thomas Lister Watt, Jr., Cary Thomas Watt, Grace FarringtonWatt, and James Lawrence Watt.
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EDWIN HENRY WEATHERBEE THE Weatherbee family is of remote Norwegian origin, butsince the eleventh century, or perhaps earlier, has beensettled in England, where the town of Wetherby is named for it.Members of it were among the earliest settlers in the New Eng-land colonies, and thence their descendants have spread through-out the country, until in nearly every State of the Union at leastone representative is honorably known. In the last generationHenry M. Weatherbee of Chatham, New York, was a successfullawyer, merchant, and politician, and a man of broad culture andhighly esteemed by all who knew him. The Angell family, well known in England from early times,was well represented in the original colonies from which thisnation has sprung. Thomas Angell was a comrade of RogerWilliams in the settlement of Rhode Island. Three generationsago Colonel Joshua Angell removed from Providence, RhodeIsland, to Chatham, New York, taking with him his son John, atthat time a mere boy. John Angell sp

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