The Watson family is one of the old and honored English families. The name appears frequently in the literary scientific and ecclesiastical annals of Great Britain. John Watson a great uncle of Walter Leisenring Watson founded the John Watson University of Edinburgh and also endowed the University of Edinburgh. The founder of American Watson family was Walter Watson who migrated from Scotland in the first quarter of the Nineteenth Century, and settled along the Hudson River in New York, where he stayed for some time and then returned again to Scotland.