SENATOR EDWARD G. WATSON.
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twenty-second district is represented in the senate by Dr.
E. G. Watson, of Friend, a physician and surgeon of emiment
scholarship. He was born in Lafayette county, Wisconsin,
January 18, 1858. Receiving a good common school education,
he taught for several terms. He graduated from Rush Medical
College in 1884, and soon after located at Friend, where he
enjoys a large and lucrative practice. In 1889 the doctor
visited Europe, traveling through Ireland, England, and
France, and attended the Paris exposition. He subsequently
visited Berlin, Dresden, and Prague, in the meantime
studying medicine and surgery under the most celebrated
scientists and specialists of the old world. While in Berlin
he became intimately acquainted with Hon. William Walter
Phelps, the distinguished American consul. He also visited
Vienna, Constantinople, sailed down the Mediterranean to
Cairo, Egypt, climbed the Pyramids, and viewed the wonders
of the ancient Nile, studying the peculiarities of the
native towns. Through the Suez canal, the Red sea, and the
Indian ocean, he traversed India, China, and Japan, crossing
the Pacific ocean to San Francisco, having circumnavigated
the globe in one year and six days. Senator Watson is a man
of means, sterling integrity, and
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