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Daniel F. Johnson : Volume 78 Number 2744

Date August 7 1891
County York
Place Fredericton
Newspaper The Gleaner

info The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.

St. John, Aug. 7 - Hon. Charles WATTERS, Judge of the County Court, died at his residence Carmarthen Street this morn. He failed to appear at breakfast and his daughter, Florence WATTERS went to his room to call him. She found him lying across the bed dead. Judge Watters was about 70 years of age. He became a member of the legislature about 1855 and represented Victoria County. Afterwards he represented St. John in the same body. With the Hon. S.L. Tilley he was defeated in 1857 on the Prohibitory liquor question, but was re-elected with Tilley the following year and sat for several sessions of the legislature. In 1867 he was appointed Judge of the County Court and in 1876, he was appointed Judge of Vice Admiralty Court. He was Chairman of the Board of Health here. Mrs. Watters is at present in Scotland and nearly all the members of the family are away from home. Judge Watters leaves six children, four sons and two daughters by his first wife, who was Miss DOHERTY of this city and eight children, five sons and three daughters, by his second wife, Miss PRIESTLY d/o Mayor PRIESTLY of Fredericton.

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