From the Wisconsin State Library in Madison: Term: Watts, Oliver Patterson 1865 - 1953 *Definition:* professor of chemical engineering and applied electrochemistry, b. Thomaston, Me. He graduated from Bowdoin College (A.B., 1889), and, after several years of teaching in the East, from the Univ. of Wisconsin (Ph.D., 1905). In 1905 he joined the faculty of the Univ. of Wisconsin, and from that date until his retirement in 1937 served as instructor and professor of applied electrochemistry in the department of chemical engineering. Watts was the author of numerous papers on various developments in electrochemistry, but is perhaps the best known for his development of the hot nickel plating bath known as the "Watts Bath" which he first described in a paper published in 1915. The process came into widespread use, and was eventually utilized by the entire plating industry. After retiring to the status of emeritus associate professor in 1937, Watts continued to work at his laboratory experiments for many years. A lover of the outdoors, Watts spent his summers in travel and camping, but maintained his residence in Madison until his death. He was vice-president of the National Electro-Chemical Society (1926-1927). M. Curti and V. Carstensen, Univ. of Wis. (2 vols., Madison, 1949); Madison Capital Times, Feb. 6, 1953; Univ. of Wis. Faculty Memorial, Document 1081, April 6, 1953 (on file in office of secretary of the faculty). [Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin biography] Sara Steele wrote: > You might want to try contacting the secretary of the faculty at the > University of Wisconsin--Madison. That University, like several others, > does a memorial page or two when a former faculty member dies. Colleagues > write the pages. Some ae more > informative than others. > > Sara > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "From Carol" <decker@tiptontel.com> > To: <WIDANE@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 10:09 AM > Subject: [WIDANE] OBIT - OLIVER PATTERSON WATTS > > > >> Oliver Patterson Watts was a professor at the university in Madison, WI. >> He >> was married to a lady named Mary, no children. They were in the 1930 >> census, but according to Family Search he married again in 1948, Stella >> Elizabeth Nuzum. So Mary must have died sometime between 1930 and 1948. >> Mr. Watts was born July 16, 1865, I believe in Maine, and died Feb. 6, >> 1953, >> I assume in Wisconsin, and is buried in Columbus, Ohio. A friend in Ohio >> is >> trying to put together burial records and obits for a very large cemetery >> in >> Columbus to be able to assist other genealogists. There was nothing in >> the >> Columbus, Ohio paper, but there was a blurp in the New York Times. >> He was very famous. >> >> I believe if you live within a certain district of Wisconsin, you can get >> obits free >> from the Madison Library. Could someone please ask for the obit for >> Mary Watts and for Oliver Patterson Watts? >> >> Thank you, >> Carol Decker >> Tipton, IN >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> WIDANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WIDANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >