Alfred Augustin Watson

Doctor of Divinity 1884

Watson was elected Episcopal Bishop of East Carolina in 1884, the same year he received his honorary degree from the University. Prior to the Civil War, he tutored the children of Josiah Collins, a North Carolina enslaver. He served as a Confederate chaplain during the war.

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