The Watson men of Barry were very active in their communities, and I wound up with a lot of papers that had nothing to do with the family. A few years ago I sorted through them.
A lot of them were related to the Barry chautauquas as the Watsons did a lot of the bookings. These were easy to place at the University of Iowa, which has a large chautauqua collection. The Barry Chautauqua Collection
The rest all concerned political campaigns in Illinois, as Buck (W.W.) Watson was very involved in Republican politics. I wrote to both the Illinois State Archives and the University of Illinois, and both replied. I ultimately sent them to the University of Illinois as their researchers seemed more eager to get them and Dad and Mom both went there. They now reside in their own special collection Buck Watson Collection
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