Dr. Watson be known as a 'Watson'." Dr Watson's first name is mentioned on only four occasions. Part one of the very first Sherlock Holmes story, "A Study in Scarlet", is subtitled "Being a reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., Late of the Army Medical Department". The preface of the collection "His Last Bow" is signed 'John H. Watson, M.D', and in "The Problem of Thor Bridge", Watson says that his dispatch box is labelled 'John H. Watson, M.D'. His wife Mary Watson appears to refer to him as 'James' in "The Man with the Twisted Lip"; Dorothy L.
James Lopez Watson death of cancer in Harlem. In 2003, the courthouse at 1 Federal Plaza in Manhattan was renamed the James L. Watson United States Court of International Trade Building in Watson's honor. James Lopez Watson James Lopez Watson (May 21, 1922 – September 1, 2001) was a Judge of the United States Court of International Trade. While serving as a judge around the country, Watson became the first African-American to head a federal court in the Deep South. Born on May 21, 1922, in Harlem, New York City, New York, the son of James S. Watson and his wife Violet, Watson