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	Thomas J. Watson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Watson, pictured in 1917, is considered the founder of IBM.
		Watson was named chairman emeritus of IBM in September 1949.
		Watson married Jeanette Kittredge, from a prominent Dayton, Ohio railroad family, and had four children.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_J._Watson (1026 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Thomas E. Watson (1856-1922)
		Thomas E. Watson is perhaps best known to Georgians today by his imposing statue near the steps of the Georgia capitol.
		Watson appealed to Georgians as a defender of the old way of life when he was first elected to the state legislature, representing McDuffie County, in 1882.
		During the trial of Leo Frank in 1913, Watson's strong attacks on Frank and on the pervasive influence of Jews in the state heavily influenced sentiment against Frank, who was lynched by a mob in 1915.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2540 (1674 words)

	THOMAS WATSON - LoveToKnow Article on THOMAS WATSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Watson was now, as the testimony of Nashe and others prove, regarded as the best Latin poet of England.
		Of the remainder of Watson's career nothing is known, save that on the 26th of September 1592 he was buried in the church of St Bartholomew the Less, and that in the following year his latest and best book, The Tears of Fancie, or Love Disdained (1593), was posthumously published.
		Watson died young, and he had not escaped from a certain languor and insipidity which prevent his graceful verses from producing their full effect.
	31.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WA/WATSON_THOMAS.htm (764 words)

	§5. Thomas Watson. XII. The Elizabethan Sonnet. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of ...
		Watson, in truth, was a frigid scholiast, who was characteristically indifferent to strict metrical law.
		Watson’s endeavour won almost universal applause from contemporaries, but it is wholly a literary exercise, which appeals for approval, not on the ground of sincerity of emotion, but, rather, by reason of its skill in dovetailing together fragments of foreign poetry.
		Watson’s second venture bore the title The Tears of Fancie, or Love Disdained; it differed from the first in respecting the primary law which confined the sonnet within a limit of fourteen lines.
	www.bartleby.com /213/1205.html (759 words)

	IBM Archives: Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
		Watson was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1914.
		Watson served for five years as a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps, and at the time of his discharge held the rating of Senior Pilot and the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
		Watson was made chief executive officer and he was elected chairman of the board in May 1961.
	www-03.ibm.com /ibm/history/exhibits/chairmen/chairmen_4.html (271 words)

	Thomas Watson (inventor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Augustus Watson (18 January 1854 - 13 December 1934) was an assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, notably in the invention of the telephone.
		Watson himself remembered it as being "I want you" in a recording he made reminiscing about the events leading up to the first telephone call.
		Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Watson founded the Fore River Ship and Engine Company in 1883.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Watson_(inventor) (214 words)

	Guide Introduction: The Thomas E. Watson Papers
		Watson's boyhood idol Alexander Stephens, now in failing health, was the newly elected governor, but despite the presence of that champion of the old agrarian regime, the political tide ran in Grady's direction and against the rural way of life that Watson held dear.
		Watson's position was consistent with his earlier stand against the war with Spain and was argued along the same lines as socialist activists: this was a rich man's war and a poor man's fight.
		Watson was an important and representative member of the new planter/lawyer/business class that superseded the antebellum planters of his grandfather's generation.
	www.lexisnexis.com /academic/guides/political_history/watson.asp (8915 words)

	Essay: Thomas S. Watson, Sr.--Business Partner of Andrew Jackson
		The first evidence of Thomas Watson in Tennessee is a 1798 indenture recorded in Davidson County, in which he signs his name as a witness to the purchase of 300 acres on Stoner's Creek by John Watson of Prince Edward County, Virginia, from John Donelson of Davidson County,Tennessee.
		A third Thomas Watson was associated with this family: Thomas Tennessee Watson was the nephew of Thomas S. Watson, Sr., and a son of Sarah Branch Jones and LTC Augustus Watson.
		Thomas Tennessee Watson was nine years old in 1815 when his father died at Camp Carter in Albermarle County, Virginia, during the War of 1812.
	pages.prodigy.net /nhn.slate/nh00053.html (965 words)

	Thomas Wason bibliography
		Thomas Watson’s Body of Practical Divinity is one of the most precious of the peerless works of the Puritans; and those best acquainted with it prize it most.
		Watson was one of the most concise, racy, illustrative, and suggestive of those eminent divines who made the Puritan age the Augustan period of evangelical literature.
		Mr Watson published a variety of books upon practical subjects, and of a useful nature, for the titles of which, see foot-note.* But his principal work was a body of divinity, in one hundred and seventy-six sermons, upon the Assembly’s Catechism, which did not appear till after his death.
	www.fivesolas.com /watson/wattarget.htm (2416 words)

	1896: Tom Watson
		Watson's reelection campaign that same year fell victim to wholesale fraud and intimidation, as the Democrats employed bribery, ballot box stuffing, voting of minors, repeat voting, out-of-state voters and violence to defeat him.
		Meanwhile, Watson and the "mid-roaders," as those who opposed fusion with the Democrats were known, demanded that Bryan drop his Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, Arthur Sewall, a conservative businessman who was anathema to die-hard Populists like Watson.
		Watson was now a virulent racist, a far cry from the Populist leader of the 1890s who had openly called for fl political equality and racial unity along class lines.
	projects.vassar.edu /1896/watson.html (1469 words)

	The American Experience \| The Telephone \| People & Events \| Thomas A. Watson
		As Dr. Watson was to Sherlock Holmes, Thomas A. Watson was to Alexander Graham Bell: the jovial but indispensable sidekick.
		Yet Watson was a capable performer when it came to it: during the demonstrations of the telephone, he gamely belted hymns and popular airs into the receiver, despite his vague ability to hold a tune.
		Watson had taken a three-year course in geology and paleontology with his wife while running his shipbuilding outfit, and so was able to recover by teaming up with a geology professor from MIT to evaluate ore deposits.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/telephone/peopleevents/pande04.html (653 words)

	Braintree Electric Light Department
		Thomas Augustus Watson was the founder of BELD.
		Thomas Watson was born Jan. 18, 1854 in Salem, Massachusetts, son of a livery stable foreman and thrifty housewife.
		Watson's function was to furnish vocal entertainment that was transmitted to the hall from several miles away.
	www.beld.com /AboutBeld/Watson.asp (707 words)

	Thomas Watson
		I was awed at the prodigious output of men who preached several times each week, called on every family in the congregation (at which time they reviewed the family's knowledge of scripture and catechism), and still managed to write thousands of pages by candlelight and oil lamp.
		Following his studies, Watson was ordained a Church of England clergyman and appointed to a large congregation in London.
		Watson's condensation, "Such as will not weep…" is as haunting as it is indelible.
	www.victorshepherd.on.ca /Heritage/watson.htm (885 words)

	Wiley::The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM
		Watson's mania for overreaching peaked when he accepted a decoration from Hitler in 1937 under the deluded impression that Hitler woul d follow Watson's ca mpaign for world peace through world trade; according to Maney, that episode illustrates how out-of-control Watson's ego had grown.
		Watson had come to prominence for his work at National Cash Register (NCR), but owing to his involvement in a federal antitrust case, was forced out of his job.
		Thomas Watson Sr.'s first really public achievement was a conviction (overturned) and jail sentence (never served) for running a dirty-tricks operation at National Cash Register.
	www.wiley.com /WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471414638,descCd-reviews.html (1708 words)

	Thomas E. Watson Revisited
		Watson declared himself a candidate for the House of Representatives in the 1890 election.
		Watson alerted the Populists to Bryan's silver demagoguery, writing that "certahi wire-pullers in Washington were scheming to side-track the People's Party by having it surrender an of its platform excepting the Free Silver Plank." He proposed free silver as a remedy for the artificially high dollar, created by a corner on the gold market.
		Watson's political philosophy was based on a committment to popular democracy and individual rights; on this basis he defended the states against the encroachments of the Federal Government.
	www.ihr.org /jhr/v03/v03p301_Irwin.html (6035 words)

	A Memoir of Thomas Watson
		Although Thomas Watson issued several most valuable books, comparatively little is known of him--even the dates of his birth and death are unknown.
		Watson at length returned to Essex, where he died suddenly, in his closet at prayer, as is supposed, about 1689 or 1690.
		Watson published a variety of books upon practical subjects, and of a useful nature, for the titles of which, see foot-note.
	www.puritansermons.com /watson/wats_mem.htm (2476 words)

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		Watson Fellowship Program to enable college graduates of exceptional promise to engage in a year of independent study and travel abroad following graduation.
		THE THOMAS J. WATSON FOUNDATION was founded in 1961 as a charitable trust by Mrs.
		In the selection of Watson Fellows, we seek to identify individuals who demonstrate integrity, strong ethical character, intelligence, the capacity for vision and leadership, and potential for humane and effective participation in the worldcommunity.
	www.villasubrosa.com /Nathan/watsonpage.html (485 words)

	My Great Aunt's Lynching
		Thomas Watson's father, John Watson heard about the free land through his sister-in-law, Jane Wilson, who was living in Canada at the time.
		Thomas wanted to marry Frances, after he found out she was pregnant, but I believe his parents forbid it.
		Thomas after selling his land he was living on in Canada, with his wife and all of his children, and with his wagon full of their belongings went to Kincardine to catch a ferry down to Detroit, Michigan, and from there went by wagon train to Red Cloud, Nebraska.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Bunker/2555/aunt.html (2630 words)

	Thomas E. Watson Papers
		Watson represented the growing mass of poor farmers in the South and Midwest at a time when their economic and political status was rapidly slipping in the wake of urbanization and industrialization.
		Watson’s early populism was an appeal to the oppressed of both races against the common foe of corporate domination.
		That appeal came to grief in the rising tide of racism at the end of the century, and by 1906 Watson was in the forefront of those sponsoring state legislation to ensure white supremacy.
	www.lexisnexis.com /academic/2upa/Aph/WatsonPapers.asp (666 words)

	USATODAY.com - IBM founder's Depression gamble pays off (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Watson nearly ruined the company, but in the end, it shot IBM past competitors and looked like a brilliant strategy.
		Watson welcomed invitations to speak at almost any event, just so he'd have a platform for spreading his viewpoint.
		Watson has the idea that the troubles of the times are not so much due to overproduction as to underproduction," he wrote.
	www.usatoday.com /money/books/2003-04-20-ibm-watson-bio_x.htm (1714 words)

	Thomas J. Watson
		Entrepreneur Thomas Watson was born in rural New York.
		Watson was a natural salesman and had a number of jobs before beginning work for National Cash Register Company.
		After World War II, Watson began to move IBM into the era of electronic computers, paving the way for IBM to become a world leader in the field of technology.
	www.multied.com /bio/people/jWatson.html (140 words)

	BW Online \| May 12, 2003 \| Building Big Blue, Reinventing Business
		Fewer people would cite Thomas Watson Sr., the creator of IBM (IBM), who ruled the company from 1911 until his death in 1956.
		After the NCR debacle, Watson was recruited in 1914 to head a nearly bankrupt seller of scales and time clocks, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. "He had to prove to the world that he was a moral and straightshooting businessman," writes Maney.
		Watson was more than shrewd: Maney argues that his greatest achievement was discovering the power of corporate culture.
	www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/03_19/b3832017_mz005.htm (1061 words)

	Thomas Watson
		Watson was now, as the testimony of Thomas Nashe and others prove, regarded as the best Latin poet of England.
		He was the first, after the original experiment made by Sir Thomas Wyat and Surrey, to introduce the pure imitation of Petrarch into English poetry.
		Thomas Watson's "Italian Madrigals Englished" (1590) were reprinted (edited by F. Carpenter) from the Journal of Germanic Philology (vol.
	www.nndb.com /people/167/000103855 (682 words)

	TIME 100: Thomas Watson, Jr.
		Watson enrolled in IBM sales school after college and hated that as well.
		Even so, Watson filled his entire sales quota for 1940 on the first day of that year — but only because the company had thrown the boss's son a big account to make him look good.
		Watson flew throughout Asia, Africa and the Pacific, displaying steel nerves and shrewd foresight and planning skills.
	www.time.com /time/time100/builder/profile/watson.html (467 words)

	IBM Research \| Watson Research Center \| T. J. Watson Father and Son
		After he was cleared of antitrust charges lingering from his tenure at NCR, Watson was promoted to president.
		Watson said, "This is a very sentimental moment for me, because I am stepping down from a job that I have valued more than anything in my life outside of my own family." Watson remained on the board and served as chairman of the executive committee.
		Watson retired at age 70, ending more than 70 years of Watson family leadership at IBM.
	www.watson.ibm.com /t_j_watson_history.shtml (299 words)

	No. 1177: Thomas Watson
		Two years later, in 1876, Bell was able to summon Watson on their embryonic telephone.
		He left Watson to keep developing the new device and to solve technical problems in the first commercial phones.
		Thomas Watson's life was certainly risky and uneven.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1177.htm (545 words)

	Watson, Thomas John, Jr. on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State and Separation of Church and...
		Watson early recognized the importance of computers and maintained IBM's dominance in that and other advanced technologies, while his management and marketing prowess turned IBM into a symbol of corporate excellence.
		Watson Brake, a middle Archaic mound complex in Northeast Louisiana.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/w/watson-t1j12.asp (380 words)

	The Watson Institute for International Studies
		Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies evolved from Thomas J. Watson Jr.'s (class of 1937) vision for a research and teaching center that would address the most pressing problems of its time.
		Barbara Stallings, the Watson Institute’s William R. Rhodes Research Professor, has coauthored a new volume titled Finance for Development: Latin America in Comparative Perspective, which was published by Brookings Institution Press.
		Professors in classics, history, political science, finance, and economics gathered for two days at the Watson Institute recently to address “Formation and Evolution of Institutions.” Research-in-progress was presented on subjects ranging from “The Origins of Athenian Democracy” by Professor Josiah Ober, of Princeton University, to “Latin American Industrialization,” by Stephen Haber, of Stanford University.
	www.watsoninstitute.org (760 words)

	Horvitz & Levy LLP - H. Thomas Watson
		Thomas Watson joined the firm in 1992 and became a partner in 2000.
		Watson has extensive appellate experience in insurance and healthcare law.
		Watson received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Idaho, his M.B.A. from Pepperdine University and his Juris Doctor from the University of California at Los Angeles.
	www.horvitzlevy.com /atty/atty27tw.html (185 words)

	TIME 100: James Watson & Francis Crick
		As told in Watson's classic memoir, "The Double Helix," it was a tale of boundless ambition, impatience with authority and disdain, if not contempt, for received opinion.
		At a conference in Naples, Watson saw a vague, ghostly image of a DNA molecule rendered by X-ray crystallography.
		This theme of Watson's book — the hot pursuit of glory, the race against the chemist Linus Pauling for the Nobel Prize that DNA would surely bring--got bad reviews from the (relatively) genteel Crick.
	www.time.com /time/time100/scientist/profile/watsoncrick.html (469 words)

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