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FRED E. WATSON is owner and manager of the Creston roller mills. This is one of the important industries of Lincoln county and has been built by the subject of this article. The plant is fitted with all the latest improved milling machinery and has an output capacity of four hundred barrels per day. Mr. Watson is a practical business man and has demonstrated his ability to handle large industries, being possessed of the happy faculty which enables him to grasp the outlines of business yet allows no details to escape his notice.
Fred L. Watson was born in Michigan, on
March 5, 1862, the son of J. B. and Kate
(Fryant) Watson, natives of New York. The
father was a prominent and influential citizen
in Michigan and held various offices of trust. Our subject received his education at Valparaiso, Indiana, there gaining the degree of
Bachelor of Arts in 1885. After finishing his
college course he went to the farm in Michigan
and turned his attention to the cultivation of
the soil until 1892, when he came to Washington. He soon located at Creston and commenced buying wheat. In this business he was
prospered until 1892, when he erected the mill
spoken of above and continued in buying wheat
and handled the milling business also.
Mr. Watson is one of the well known busi-
ness men of Lincoln county and has established
for himself a very enviable reputation.
In 1895, Mr. Watson married Miss Anna,
daughter of August Lillengreen, a native of
Minnesota. To this union one child, Beatrice,
was born in 1899.
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