Elkanah Watson

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1758

Birth Place: Massachusetts

Death Date: 1842

Death Place: New York City

Affiliations: Unknown

Notes: Visionary traveller and writer, agriculturalist and canal promoter, banker and businessman. Founded the State Bank of Albany. Involved in the development of the Erie Canal, corresponded with Thomas Eddy in 1820.

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