Early Life and Marriage
Watson was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, a son of Commander John Crittendon Watson, USN.
Watson married Hermine Cary Gratz who came from a family of five siblings, including a half sister, Helen, who married Godfrey Rockefeller of Greenwich, Connecticut.
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