Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1907 — REPRESENTATIVES OF INDIANA [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

REPRESENTATIVES OF INDIANA

James Ell Watson, Republican, of Rushville, who represents the Sixth congressional district, was born in Winchester, Ind., Nov. 2, 1864; graduated from the Winchester high school In 1881, entered De Pauw university the same year and remained in that institution until the year 1885, when he studied law and was admitted in 1886. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and has been grand chancellor of the order; was elected president of the State Epworth league of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1892 and re-elected in 1893. He was elected to the Fifty-fourth congress over the veteran William S. Helman, to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth congresses and re-elected to the Sixtieth congress.

JAMES ELI WATSON.