A major research project is now being done at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond about Dr. David Lipscomb Watson (1868-1939), a New Orleans pediatrician, publisher and staunch Prohibitionist. Living relatives and acquaintances of Dr. Watson can be particularly helpful and are being sought.
Usually known as "Dr. D. L. Watson," he was born in Wilcox County, Ala., in 1868. He finished the now defunct Highland Home College and the University of Alabama Medical School.
Watson set up practice in New Orleans in the 1890s and died at his home on the corner of Camp and Second streets in December 1939. He is buried in Metairie Lakelawn Cemetery. His wife, Maud White Watson, died in the 1950s. They had a son, David Lipscomb Watson Jr., who became a railroad executive and a colonel in the Army Reserve. He died in 1981.
Dr. Watson had a large pediatric practice involving some 4,000 children. He established the Watson Printing Company, which became the New Orleans agency for a number of periodicals including "Progressive Farmer." The Watson Printing Company was the original 1908 publisher of "Word and Work," a religious periodical that continues to circulate from Louisville, Ky.
As a staunch Prohibitionist, Watson wrote a book, "Health of the Nation," in support of the cause. He started the Temperance Foundation, and in the 1920s took the then-rare action of publicly supporting Republican presidential tickets when the national Democratic Party put repeal of Prohibition into its platform. ---Published in Times-Picayune, Nov. 18, 2001, by Damon Veach
Usually known as "Dr. D. L. Watson," he was born in Wilcox County, Ala., in 1868. He finished the now defunct Highland Home College and the University of Alabama Medical School.
Watson set up practice in New Orleans in the 1890s and died at his home on the corner of Camp and Second streets in December 1939. He is buried in Metairie Lakelawn Cemetery. His wife, Maud White Watson, died in the 1950s. They had a son, David Lipscomb Watson Jr., who became a railroad executive and a colonel in the Army Reserve. He died in 1981.
Dr. Watson had a large pediatric practice involving some 4,000 children. He established the Watson Printing Company, which became the New Orleans agency for a number of periodicals including "Progressive Farmer." The Watson Printing Company was the original 1908 publisher of "Word and Work," a religious periodical that continues to circulate from Louisville, Ky.
As a staunch Prohibitionist, Watson wrote a book, "Health of the Nation," in support of the cause. He started the Temperance Foundation, and in the 1920s took the then-rare action of publicly supporting Republican presidential tickets when the national Democratic Party put repeal of Prohibition into its platform. ---Published in Times-Picayune, Nov. 18, 2001, by Damon Veach
A major research project is now being done at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond about Dr. David Lipscomb Watson (1868-1939), a New Orleans pediatrician, publisher and staunch Prohibitionist. Living relatives and acquaintances of Dr. Watson can be particularly helpful and are being sought.
Usually known as "Dr. D. L. Watson," he was born in Wilcox County, Ala., in 1868. He finished the now defunct Highland Home College and the University of Alabama Medical School.
Watson set up practice in New Orleans in the 1890s and died at his home on the corner of Camp and Second streets in December 1939. He is buried in Metairie Lakelawn Cemetery. His wife, Maud White Watson, died in the 1950s. They had a son, David Lipscomb Watson Jr., who became a railroad executive and a colonel in the Army Reserve. He died in 1981.
Dr. Watson had a large pediatric practice involving some 4,000 children. He established the Watson Printing Company, which became the New Orleans agency for a number of periodicals including "Progressive Farmer." The Watson Printing Company was the original 1908 publisher of "Word and Work," a religious periodical that continues to circulate from Louisville, Ky.
As a staunch Prohibitionist, Watson wrote a book, "Health of the Nation," in support of the cause. He started the Temperance Foundation, and in the 1920s took the then-rare action of publicly supporting Republican presidential tickets when the national Democratic Party put repeal of Prohibition into its platform. ---Published in Times-Picayune, Nov. 18, 2001, by Damon Veach
Usually known as "Dr. D. L. Watson," he was born in Wilcox County, Ala., in 1868. He finished the now defunct Highland Home College and the University of Alabama Medical School.
Watson set up practice in New Orleans in the 1890s and died at his home on the corner of Camp and Second streets in December 1939. He is buried in Metairie Lakelawn Cemetery. His wife, Maud White Watson, died in the 1950s. They had a son, David Lipscomb Watson Jr., who became a railroad executive and a colonel in the Army Reserve. He died in 1981.
Dr. Watson had a large pediatric practice involving some 4,000 children. He established the Watson Printing Company, which became the New Orleans agency for a number of periodicals including "Progressive Farmer." The Watson Printing Company was the original 1908 publisher of "Word and Work," a religious periodical that continues to circulate from Louisville, Ky.
As a staunch Prohibitionist, Watson wrote a book, "Health of the Nation," in support of the cause. He started the Temperance Foundation, and in the 1920s took the then-rare action of publicly supporting Republican presidential tickets when the national Democratic Party put repeal of Prohibition into its platform. ---Published in Times-Picayune, Nov. 18, 2001, by Damon Veach
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