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Dr. John Watson Dies

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 29, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 22.

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Dr. John Watson Dies

While on a lecture tour in this country Dr. John Watson, better known as "Ian MacLaren," died of blood poisoning, at Burlington, Iowa, May 6. Dr. Watson was born at Manningtree, Essex, England, educated in Scotland and Germany, ordained to the ministry at twenty-five, being for many years pastor of Sefton Park Presbyterian Church in Liverpool. He is best known as an author, among his most popular books being "Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush," "A Doctor of the Old School," etc., all breathing deep devotion, especially as manifest in the simple lives of the Scotch country-folk.