Lang, H. O., ed.  "The History of the Willamette Valley, Being A Description 
of the Valley and its Resources, with an account of its Discovery and 
Settlement by White Men, and its Subsequent History; Together with Personal 
Reminiscences of its Early Pioneers."  Portland, OR, Geo. H. Himes, Book and 
Job Printer, 1885.  p. 630.

JOSEPH WATT

     Born in Knox County, Ohio, December 17, 1817; at the age of twenty he went
west as far as Missouri, where he lived two years engaged at the carpenter's
trade.  Started for Oregon in 1843, but did not arrive until the following year.
Returned east in 1847 and accompanied his father's family to Oregon in 1848, who
came direct to Yamhill County and settled there.  Mr. Watt shipped the first
load of wheat around Cape Horn from Oregon in 1868; is now a farmer and stock
grower and owner of three thousand six hundred and forty acres of land.  On his
return to Oregon in 1848 he brought a carding machine, the first on the Pacific
Coast.  Married Miss L. A. Lyons, daughter of Hon. Lemuel Lyons, consul to Japan
under President Grant, the marriage taking place in 1860.  The children by that
union are -- John L., Maria L. (deceased), Arlington B., Earl B., and Mary C.
Mr. Watt's residence and address are Amity, Yamhill County.
 
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in May 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.