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Ethelbert Watts (February 25, 1846 – July 13, 1919) a United States diplomat for over twenty-four years, played important roles in the Spanish–American War, Russo-Japanese War, and World War I. ==Family and personal background== The second son of United States Minister to Austria Henry Miller Watts and Anna Maria Schoenberger, Ethelbert Watts was born in Philadelphia.〔(Sons of the Revolution, Annual Proceedings – 1920 ) at p. 71 (obituary of Ethelbert Watts).〕 He was a great-grandson of Revolutionary War brigadier-general Frederick Watts, and also of lieutenant colonel Henry Miller (1751–1824), who led colonial army units in the siege of Boston and the engagements of Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth.〔 He was the nephew of President Ulysses S. Grant's Commissioner of Agriculture (and the first president of the board of trustees of what is now Penn State University), Frederick Watts. Ethelbert was educated in Paris, then at the University of Pennsylvania. His junior year at Penn was interrupted in 1863 by Robert E. Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania in the Civil War. He enlisted as private in Company D, Thirty-second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers.〔Samuel P. Bates, (History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861–1865 ), Vol. 5, p. 1248 (1869–71); Pennsylvania State Archives, (Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861–1866 ), accessed 2010-10-16.〕 Only seventeen years old, his service was limited to the 32nd Regiment Emergency Militia Infantry, which existed from June 26 to August 1, 1863, and performed duties in the Department of the Susquehanna until Lee was driven from the Commonwealth after the Battle of Gettysburg.〔(The Civil War Archives – Union Regimental Histories – Pennsylvania ), accessed 2010-10-17.〕 After graduating from Penn he studied at the Royal Saxon School of Mines, Freiberg, Saxony.〔 Returning to Philadelphia, he was engaged in the iron business in which his father had extensive interests.〔 Henry M. Watts & Sons became the owners of Marietta Furnace No. 2 in Marietta, Pennsylvania.〔(Marietta Furnaces ), from ( The Furnaces of Rivertownes ) website, accessed 2010-10-16.〕 In 1871 Mr. Watts wed Emily Pepper, daughter of Dr. William Pepper, Sr. and sister of Dr. William Pepper, Jr. of Philadelphia.〔Ingeborg Brigitte Gastel, "(Descendants of Dietrich Seckel )," worldroots.com genealogy archive, accessed 2010-09-26.〕〔"(Society in Washington )," ''New York Times'' 1902-04-17 at p. 9.〕 They had four children: Ethel Constance Watts (Mrs. Clark Mellen), Marian Watts, Henry Miller Watts, and U.S. Navy Rear Admiral William Carleton Watts.〔 Emily Watts died in 1885.〔 In 1895 Watts married Katharine L. Gregg.〔 They had two children:〔 Francis Watts (Mrs. Theodosius Stevens), and Ethelbert Watts, Jr. (who would become an intelligence officer during World War II and military liaison officer during the Cold War). His great-granddaughter is actress Elizabeth McGovern. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ethelbert Watts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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