David Watterston

[1] The family, after spending a year in Gottland, in the Baltic Sea, went to Australia, arriving in April 1853.

[2] After acting as clerk in an attorney's office in Melbourne, Watterston moved to Ipswich, Queensland in May 1860.

[2] Watterston executed various special commissions for The Argus, being sent to the United States in 1876, for six months, in connection with the Philadelphia Exhibition.

Watterston was appointed chief of The Argus reporting staff in 1881, and four years later, on the editorship of the Australasian becoming vacant, he had that position given to him, the Australasian being a weekly literary, sporting and agricultural journal, started by the proprietors of The Argus in 1864.

[1] Gazetted with incorrect spelling, Watterson Place, in the Canberra suburb of Gilmore, is, however, named in his honour.