At present he is a member of the Board of Inspection and Survey.
John C.Watson was born in Frankfort, Ky., August 24, 1842, and is a member of one of the leading families of the State.

He entered the Naval Academy at the age of fourteen and was graduated near the head of his class in June, 1860.

He was a midshipman on the _Susquehanna_ in Europe, at the breaking out of the war, and was made master in August, 1861.
It is proof of the worth of the man that he was assigned as navigator of the flagship _Hartford_, commanded by the lion-hearted Farragut.

He became lieutenant in June, 1862, and flag lieutenant to Farragut in January, 1864.
The reader of these pages has learned something of the great battles of New Orleans, Mobile Bay, Vicksburg and Port Hudson.

Watson took part in all of them and none acquitted himself better.