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W. W. WATERS, manager Presbyterian bookstore, Pittsburgh, was born in 1838, in Allegheny county, Pa. His paternal great-grandfather was a native of England, and came to America in an early day, settling in Stoughton, Mass. Asa Waters, grandfather of W. W., was a captain in the revolutionary war. (A brave woman, who was a near relative, served also in the army, and was pensioned.) His son, Oren Waters, the father of W. W., was a manufacturer in Massachusetts. He came to Pittsburgh in 1824, opened a shop in partnership with his brother Asa, and manufactured the first shovels and axes made in Pittsburgh. Later he removed to Chartiers creek, where he established himself, and subsequently removed to New Brighton. His wife was Juliet Harris, of an old Butler family. The subject of this sketch received his education in New Brighton, and came to Pittsburgh in 1851, where he was employed in an office. In 1856 he engaged as clerk with J. S. Davison, a dealer in books, and in 1873 he took charge of the Presbyterian bookstore, of which he is now the manager. He has resided in Sewickley since 1875. Mr. Waters married a daughter of Rev. B. C. Critchlow, of the Presbyterian Church, pastor of the New Brighton Church for thirty-three years. Mr. and Mrs. Waters are members of the Presbyterian Church of Sewickley, of which he is an elder; politically he is a republican.