Biography
Mrs. William Upton Watson was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during the 1917-1919 campaign to picket the Wilson White House for woman suffrage. Doris Stevens recorded her term as: August 17–September 11, 1917: 25 days served on a 30-day sentence; August 1918: five days.
Stevens distinguishes an August 1918 five-day sentence for the Lafayette Square meeting from Watson’s August 1917 Occoquan sentence. The later nominal episode is recorded separately without altering the earlier physical dates or time-served total. The source does not establish the later individual physical arrest, admission or discharge date.
Stevens identifies Watson as treasurer of the Illinois state branch of the National Woman’s Party, based in Chicago. This is her historical organizing role.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 369.
