Alphonso Watson

American, ca. 1837-1876

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There is an Alphonso Watson, born ca. 1837 in New York State, listed as an artist in Niagara, NY in the 1860 census. An Alphonso Watson is listed as an artist living in Brooklyn, but working in Chicago on the 1865 New York State Census. He is the son-in-law of George K. Stiles. That same year the Brooklyn business directory lists Alphonzo Watson as a photographer living at 119 Montague Street, which is also Stiles' address.In the 1865 Chicago directory there is an A. Watson, artist for Samuel Montague Fassett, a Chicago photographer. He is again listed in 1866, still with just the first initial as a photographic artist there.