Background
Watts, Otto Olive was born on March 21, 1893 in Brentwood, Arkansas, United States. Son of J(ohn) C(layton) and Lillian Harriett (Olive) Watts.
Watts, Otto Olive was born on March 21, 1893 in Brentwood, Arkansas, United States. Son of J(ohn) C(layton) and Lillian Harriett (Olive) Watts.
AB, Simmons College, (now Hardin Simmons University), Abilene, Texas, 1913. AB, Rice Institute, Houston, 1916. AM, University Colorado, 1923.
Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1932.
Teacher, high school, Westbrook, Texas, 1913; teacher, high school, Mart, Texas, 1914; principal, high school, Groveton, Texas, 1916; principal, high school, Austin, Texas, 1919; professor of chemistry, Hardin-Simmons U., from 1920; head department, Hardin-Simmons U., 1920-1964; chairman graduate studies, Hardin-Simmons U., 1938-1952; instructor chemistry, U. Colorado, 1922-1924; teaching fellow, acting assistant professor of chemistry, Stanford University, 1930-1932. Visiting professor of chemistry Texas Western College, El Paso, summers 1936, 37, 39, San Francisco Austin State College, Nacogdoches, Texas, summer, 1938.
Served as radio sergeant 1st class, 90th division United States Army, 1917-1919, later instructor chemistry department Advertising Educational Foundation University, Beaune, France. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Texas Academy of Sciences (honorary life. 1st vice president 1937, treasurer 1940-1942).
Member American Chemical Society, Texas Archeological and Paleontological Society (director, secretary treasurer), Texas Archeological Society (life), Sigma Xi, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Alpha Chi (president 1950, executive secretary-treasurer Region I).
Son of J(ohn) C(layton) and Lillian Harriett (Olive) W. M. Lela May Shaw, September 12, 1919. 1 daughter, Helen Florence (Mistress George A. Campbell, Junior).