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WATTERSON, John Ambrose, R. C. bishop, born in Blairsville, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, 27 May, 1844. After being graduated at Mount, St. Mary's college, Emmitsburg, in 1865, he studied for the priesthood and was ordained on 8 August, 1868. He was then appointed professor in Mount St. Mary's, and in 1877 he was made president. In 1880 he was nominated bishop of Columbus, and was consecrated on 8 August of that year. He devoted himself specially to the work of education, and in 1884 founded a college in Columbus. The diocese contains 92 churches, 37 chapels and stations, 80 priests, and 17 ecclesiastical students.
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