![]() After two years of this life, he realized he would be earning $70 per week if he were on a commission. When Cornwell left, Watson continued alone, earning $10 per week. One year later he joined a traveling salesman, George Cornwell, peddling organs and pianos around the farms for William Bronson's local hardware store, Watson's first sales job. ![]() He left the school in 1891, taking a job at $6 a week as bookkeeper for Clarence Risley's Market in Painted Post. Having given up his first job-teaching-after just one day, Watson took a year's course in accounting and business at the Miller School of Commerce in Elmira. As Watson entered his teen years he attended Addison Academy In Addison, New York. Thomas worked on the family farm in East Campbell, New York and attended the District School Number Five in the late 1870s. His father farmed and owned a modest lumber business located near Painted Post, a few miles west of Corning, in the Southern Tier region of New York. ![]() His four older siblings were Jennie, Effie, Loua, and Emma. ![]() ![]() Watson was born in Campbell, New York, the fifth child and only son of Thomas and Jane Fulton White Watson. ![]()
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