Elgin pocket watch, ca. mid-late 1800s

• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1850
• Subjects: Civil War; Politics; 19th century; Anvil; Nome; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/13948

This watch belonged to Watson Allen who was born in New Jersey in 1842 and served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He settled in Seattle sometime after the war and was elected the King County representative to the first Washington State legislature in 1889. During his life in Seattle, Allen a...