Biography

03/21/1845 - 04/03/1903

Malachi C. Watson (D30) Schuylkill (Part) County 1887-1890 

Early Life: 

Malachi C. Watson, born March 21, 1845, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; son of Michael and Bridget Higgins Delaney Watson; public school education; engaged, mining, up until 1869; boatman transportation; engaged, wholesale liquor agent, Schuylkill County; proprietor, livery saddlery, harness establishment, Schuylkill County; married, Nancy Monaghan, 1867, married second, Anne Costello, 1869; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1887-1890; died, April 3, 1903 (aged 58), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interment, Annunciation Blessed Virgin Mary Church Cemetery, Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.  

Early Career:

Boatman; transporting government supplies by boat from Philadelphia to Washington and Alexandria, Civil War; with Uncle Michael Higgins. 

Engaged, wholesale liquor agent, large brewing establishments, Schuylkill County. 

Pennsylvania Politics: 

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 30th district, Schuylkill (Part) County 1887-1890, committee assignments, Accounts, Appropriations, Legislative Apportionment Mines and Mining Municipal Affairs and Public Printing. 

Cited: 

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members W". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

Smull’s Legislative Handbook, (1888). Cochran, T.B., (Editor) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 671, 676-678, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 647.

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