Ancestry of
Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

President and CEO of I.B.M.

Thomas John Watson Jr.

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Thomas John Watson 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Jeannette Kittredge   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Jan 1914 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio 
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  • Death Date:
  • 31 Dec 1993 
  • Death Location:
  • Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  • Notes: 

  • President and CEO of International Business Machines (I.B.M.)

    Also President of the Boy Scouts of America and the 16th U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union.

    Led I.B.M. from a company of mechanical tabulators and typewriters into the computer powerhouse that it is today.

• Marriages for Thomas John Watson Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Olive Field Cawley
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Dec 1941
  • Marriage Location:
  • Calhoun County, Alabama

• Sources for Thomas John Watson Jr.

  • ¹ Alabama, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1805-1967, Marriage record for Thomas John Watson and Olive Field Cawley.
  • ² American Ancestors Magazine, 2013, Vol. 14.4, p. 54.
  • ³ Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2012, Death record for Thomas J Watson Jr.
  • ⁴ The Journal Herald (Dayton, Ohio), 12 FEB 1966, p. 7, Obituary for mother Jeannette Kittredge Watson.
  • ⁵ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Claim for Thomas John Watson Jr.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 423.