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Don Alonzo Watson
Male, Deceased Person
1807 – 1892
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Who was Don Alonzo Watson?
Don Alonzo Watson was a Rochester, New York businessman and philanthropist who, with Hiram Sibley helped found Western Union. Watson purchased a building for Rochester Homeopathic Hospital which became Genesee Hospital in Rochester. Watson also endowed a professorship to the University of Rochester in acknowledgment of the college's achievements in Political Science and History. He is buried near Sibley in Mount Hope Cemetery.
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