Watterson, Henry. American editor. Born in 1840 at Washington, DC, where he did his first journalistic work. He edited newspapers in Nashville, TN, before and after the Civil War, in the interim serving with distinction in the Confederate Army. In 1868 he removed to Louisville, KY, where he consolidated the "Journal" with the "Democrat" and the "Courier," as the "Courier-Journal," which he edited, from 1868-1991. He published "History of the Spanish-American War," "The Compromises of Life," and various lectures, addresses, and reminiscences. For a half century he ranked as one of the most brilliant of American journalists. Died 1921.

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