and in that position acquitted himself with signal ability and strict fidelity to the important trusts committed to him. General Waters occupies a conspicuous position at a bar second to none in the West in point of ability and brilliancy. His cardinal trait is that fine sense of honor which recognizes the same high ideals in professional life as in personal dealing. Honest and straightforward, he will not descend to trickery in conduct or speech, but founds his case upon honest principles, and maintains it with power of logic, profound knowledge of the law, and admirable oratory abounding in felicity of diction and the most impressive modes of expression. An ardent Republican of the same type with the great founders of the party, many of the greatest of whom it was his privilege to know personally and intimately, he was for many years among the most active participants in every State and national campaign, and was accounted one of the most effective speakers. He maintains his relation with the party and interest in its affairs, and on occasion appears upon the platform, where he commands deep attention as an orator and an honored survivor of the founders of a party famous throughout the world for its noble achievements in behalf of humanity and civilization. In 1850 General Waters married Miss Cordelia T. Pearson, of Macomb, Illinois, and one son and two daughters were born of this union. The first Mrs. Waters died in 1879, and in 1880 he married, for his second wife, Mrs. A. E. Wylie, at Covington, Kentucky.

Waters, Richard Jones, pioneer, was born in Maryland about 1760, and died in New Madrid, Missouri, in 1807. He was well educated and graduated in medicine, though he never practiced his profession. When he was about twenty-five years of age he engaged in the mercantile business in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1789 he joined Colonel Morgan in his scheme to form a great city in Upper Louisiana. When New Madrid was established he opened up a store, and later engaged extensively in dealing in Spanish land titles, and accumulated a large fortune. On May 31, 1800, he was married to Francoise Julia Godfrey, widow of Louis Vandenbender. They had no children. Previous to his marriage he adopted two sons of Mrs. Jacob Meyers. These boys were John

and Richard Jones Waters. The former left home while young and never returned. The latter became a prominent business man in New Madrid County, where many of his descendants reside.

Waterworks, St. Louis.-In 1829 the city of St. Louis contracted with Messrs. John C. Wilson and Abraham Fox for the building and operating of a waterworks to supply "clarified" water for a term of twentyfive years; the works to belong to the city at the expiration of the contract. The reservoir was located at Ashley and Collins Streets. The works were probably completed in 1831; old reports refer to this date, but positive statements of water supply do not appear until the summer of 1832. In July, 1835, the city purchased the interest of Mr. Fox in the works, paying $18,000 therefor. The total cost of the works was about $54,000, not including interest-bearing notes given in payment for pipe. The city then became the sole owner of its waterworks. In 1845 a new reservoir was built; in 1847 the third (Benton Street) was begun, and in 1854 the fourth was constructed. During the building of the new works, or from 1867 to 1872, a temporary reservoir on Gamble Street, near Garrison Avenue, was built and was used in connection with the old reservoir. The Bissell's Point pumping station was established in 1871. In 1863 an act of the Legislature authorized the city to construct works. It also created a board of four commissioners to be elected by the Common Council of the city and provided for an issue of bonds in the sum of $3,000,000. Council legislation under this enactment was inoperative, and in 1865 the General Assembly placed the appointment of the commissioners with the Governor of the State, who appointed Messrs. Dwight Durkee, Dr. Philip Weigel, N. C. Chapman and Stephen D. Barlow.

James P. Kirkwood, chief engineer, reported a pian locating the low service works at the Chain of Rocks. The works were designed for an ultimate capacity of forty million U. S. gallons per day. This scheme was rejected by the City Council in March, 1866. In that year Mr. Kirkwood submitted a further plan providing for taking water from the neighborhood of Bissell's Point, and this was adopted.

On March 13, 1867, the General Assembly passed an act authorizing the issue of bonds to the amount of $3,000,000 and appointing a new commission. This commission-Geo. K. Budd, Alexander Crozier and Henry Fladorganized March 22, 1867, and on the 23d the former board turned over to them the old records belonging to the department. Mr. Kirkwood declined further service as chief engineer, and Thomas J. Whitman was appointed to the position and proceeded with the work. The works thus built consist of an inlet tower, or intake, on the river bank at Bissell's Point, a low service pumping plant, settling basins, a high service plant, a stand pipe, large extensions of the old pipe system, and a storage reservoir on Compton Hill. These works, extended up to 1872 by the addition of two pumping engines, had a working capacity of about thirty-two million U. S. gallons per twenty-four hours.

In 1876 the city adopted a new charter and changed its system of local government, the waterworks, with the exception of the collection of the revenue, being placed in the hands of the water commissioner, who acts as chief engineer and executive head of the department. Additions to the high service pumping plant were begun in 1881, and continued up to 1894. A new pumping station, complete, with pump mains and stand pipe, were completed, making the total high service capacity from sixty to sixty-five million U. S. gallons per day (twenty-four hours). To keep up the supply of water to the high service plant a temporary low service plant was put in, having a capacity of thirty million gallons per day. After several ineffectual attempts to secure the necessary legislation authorizing the extension of the low service works the City Council passed an ordinance, in 1887, establishing a low service station at the Chain of Rocks. This station consisted of an intake tower, an intake tunnel, a pumping plant and a system of settling basins. The works were designed for a capacity of one hundred million U. S. gallons of settled water per day. In 1893 an ordinance was passed authorizing the further extension of the high service pumping plant, and the works were established at Baden.

Waterworth, James Alexander, was born in the County Down, Ireland, near the city of Belfast, in the year 1846. He is

of English descent, his ancestors having emigrated from Yorkshire, England, to the north of Ireland about the middle of the eighteenth century, where they have been engaged for the most part in agricultural pursuits. His father, John Waterworth, was a highly respected citizen, whose memory and virtues his fellow townsmen have commemorated by a mural tablet erected in the Presbyterian Church at Downpatrick, of which he was for fifty years a venerated elder. His son, the subject of this sketch, received a good education, qualifying him for professional life; but having a strong liking for business, he entered a mercantile house, where he served a three years' apprenticeship. At the close of his apprenticeship his ambition led him to seek the wider and more remunerative field of employment offered by the United States, and he came direct to St. Louis in November, 1867. After various temporary employments he was appointed, in 1868, to a clerkship in the United States Insurance Company of which the late John J. Roe was president, where his industry and business ability gained him speedy promotion. In a few years he became assistant secretary and a director in the company. In 1871 he entered the insurance firm of H. I. Bodley & Co. as a partner, and from that date began to take a prominent part in local insurance affairs. He was married, January 21, 1875, to Miss Eliza I. Brooks, daughter of I. Brooks, daughter of the late Edward Brooks, of St. Louis, and has two sons, the issue of that marriage. In 1881, fire insurance in St. Louis having fallen into a demoralized condition, the most influential men in the business brought about a union between the board and non-board agencies, and Mr. Waterworth was selected as the person most likely to unify the discordant interests and inspire confidence. He was elected president of the reorganized board December 11, 1881, and his administration proved so acceptable that he has been annually re-elected and is at this date (1898) its president. His policy has been one of inclusion, finding room in the organization for every agent of a respectable company who is willing to conduct his business respectably. Under his presidency the St. Louis Board of Fire Underwriters has become an institution of recognized usefulness and influence.

Mr. Waterworth's pen has contributed many articles on fire insurance which have

attracted attention throughout the United States and exercised considerable influence on the policy of the companies and in securing local reforms. While deeply interested as a citizen in every question pertaining to the welfare of St. Louis and in State and national politics, he has never evinced any desire for office, the only public office ever held by him being the presidency of the Board of Charity Commissioners during Mayor Francis' administration. His sympaHis sympa thies have drawn him rather toward the advancement of education and practical benevolence as more congenial fields for his social activities. He is secretary of the Chapter of Christ Church Cathedral, which parish he has served for fifteen years; he has been a director of the Mercantile Library for many years and its president for two years, and in various works of organized beneficence he has been a silent but earnest worker. His His standing in business affairs is recognized by membership in the Commercial Club. Mr. Waterworth enjoys the respect and confidence of his fellow citizens in a high degree, and is recognized as a good type of those citizens of foreign birth whose solid endowments of character and capacity have contributed in no small degree to the building up of the American Commonwealth.

Watkins, Nathaniel W., lawyer and legislator, was born in Woodford County, Kentucky, January 28, 1796, and died at Cape

Girardeau, Missouri, March 20, 1875. came to Missouri in 1820, and located at Jackson, where he practiced law with success for more than half a century. He served several terms in the State Legislature and one term as Speaker of the House. In 1861 he was elected to the State convention, but

abandoned his seat after the capture of Camp Jackson, espoused the Southern cause and was appointed by Governor Jackson brigadier general in the State Guards. After the war he returned to Missouri and located in Scott County, and in 1875 was elected a member of the State convention called to frame a new Constitution, and was elected vice president of that body. General Watkins was a man of courtly manners, and was very popular in southwest Missouri. He was a half-brother of Henry Clay.

Watson.-A village and station on the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs

Railroad, in Atchison County, having a population of about 300. It was laid out in 1869 by Marion Good, and in 1874 was incorporated, the first board of trustees being composed of I. B. Jones, C. A. Funk, G. A. Bowers, A. E. Neumeister and A. H. Rhodes. It has three general stores, a schoolhouse, a Cumberland Presbyterian and a Methodist Episcopal Church, a Masonic lodge and a lodge of Odd Fellows, and is an important shipping point.

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Watson, Mary A., benefactress, born January 2, 1810, at Warm Springs, Bath County, Virginia, daughter of Charles and Edith Lewis, who came to Missouri in 1817, and died in St. Charles County, Missouri, March 19, 1900. Charles Lewis came of an old and aristocratic Virginia family, and his wife was of English descent. Mrs. Watson's great-great-great-grandfather, Captain John Lewis, was of Scotch-Irish origin, and a native of Belfast, Ireland. He married Margaret Lynn, of "Loch Lynn" fame, who was the daughter of a baronet. Captain Lewis came to America and first settled in North Carolina, but soon removed to Augusta County, Virginia. All his sons were in the Revolutionary War, and one of them was General Andrew Lewis, one of the most dis

tinguished soldiers of the Revolutionary pe

riod.

"My early childhood days were spent in Bath, Rockingham and Augusta Counties of Virginia, with relatives. I can remember seeing the troops who had participated in the War of 1812 returning in 1814. When six years old, I can remember being instructed by my great-great-great-paternal grandmother, Margaret Lynn Lewis, and seeing her when she was one hundred years old. She died in 1820, at the age of one hundred and three years. She was a woman of great strength of character and remarkable intelligence. In 1817 my father came to Missouri with his family and slaves, leaving Warm Springs in May and arriving in St. Louis County, near Florissant, on the 20th of July. The journey was made by wagon and by flatboat. The family lived in St. Louis County for one year and a half and then removed to St. Charles. The latter was sparsely settled, only a few small houses, consisting of one room each, with wooden latches and no locks on the

Of her early life, Mrs. Watson herself said: