John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy between partners, practitioners, other interested parties in specific policy areas. Through these efforts. Initial support for The Watson Institute came from the college's operating funds, with further funds from major foundations and corporations. John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy The John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy is an American non-partisan research institute on public policy located at Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, New Jersey. The Institute is named after New Jersey Assemblyman John S. Watson, the first African American to serve as the state's Chairman of the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Thomas Edison State College established the institute
Samuel C. Watson the Congregational denomination of the Christian church. Watson became very sick with the flu in the winter of 1890-1891, but recovered. In late February or early March 1892, he was again ill, and on March 13, 1892, Watson died of pneumonia. His funeral was held at his home on 559 Jefferson Avenue and he was buried at Elmwood Cemetery. Samuel C. Watson Samuel C. Watson (1832 – March 13, 1892) was a druggist, doctor, and civic leader in Detroit, Michigan and Chatham, Ontario. In the late 1850s and early 1860s, Watson was a part of the Detroit-Chatham Underground Railroad and