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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dr. James Sibley
Watson, Jr. (August 10, 1894 - March 31, 1982) was a Rochester, New
York, medical doctor, philanthropist, publisher, editor, and early
experimenter in motion pictures. Born in New York, Dr. James Sibley
Watson, Jr. was an heir to the Western Union telegraph fortune created
by Hiram Sibley and Don Alonzo Watson. He graduated from Harvard in
1916, although he is listed as a member of the class of 1917, where he
became friends with poet E. E. Cummings. Watson and his first wife,
Hildegarde Lasell Watson, were lifelong supporters of Cummings, as well
as of Marianne Moore and Kenneth Burke.