Kitty Burns served patients in the Watertown and Waconia area for many years as clinic nurse to Dr. John W. Clarke, who wrote after her death that she was a gracious, caring, loving, unselfish person and the single continuing thread through years of growth, development, trial, and hardship, leaving a medical and personal legacy. Dr. Edwin E. Shrader, born in 1862 and known as a pioneer physician of the Watertown community, received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, came directly to Watertown in 1893 to begin practice, built the town's first hospital, later known as Bratholdt Hospital on Angel Ave., and went to Europe in 1901 to specialize for his growing practice. Dr. James W. Bratholdt, born in 1912, graduated from medical school at the U of M in 1939, came to Watertown in 1941, purchased the hospital after World War II began, built a clinic in 1953, worked for the Watertown Community Hospital that opened in 1958, donated his equipment to it, and also served on the Watertown Board of Education. Dr. Harry A. Halgren, born in 1870, first attended the Minnesota Institute of Pharmacy, later took charge of his father's drug store in Watertown, attended medical school at the U of M specializing in surgery, graduated in 1897, became one of the leading physicians of the Northwest, built Cottage Hospital on Westminster Ave. in 1905, and after 35 years turned his practice over to Dr. Richard E. Pogue. Dr. Pogue, born in 1905, graduated from Loma Linda Medical School in California in 1933, came directly to Watertown to assume Dr. Halgren's practice, purchased all but one corner lot of the town block on which the hospital stood, and was recognized by his peers as an outstanding physician and surgeon with operating privileges at top hospitals in Minneapolis. Claude C. Teas, born in 1881, published the Carver County News from 1898 to 1952; at age 17, after his father's death, he took over the newspaper, quit school, gave up baseball, and, with help from an old friend of his father who was a Civil War veteran, kept the paper going, and in 1951, when Watertown won the Class A Baseball Championship, he was finally able to combine his love of baseball with his work. The history of Watertown schools included the first frame school in 1868, William P. Buck as the first paid teacher, William Johnson as the first janitor and general maintenance keeper, the first four-year graduates in 1911—Curtis Schlefke, William Crolley, Hannah Sanquist, Ethel St. John, and Mabel Pierson—and in 1944 associate workers Russell Johnson, janitor, Clarence Speckel, owner of the first Watertown bus company, George Mueller, bus driver, and Stanford Stewart Lenz, bus driver. Other Watertown milestones included the first issue of the Carver County News in 1887, the Watertown Dray Line owned by J.W. Speckel in 1898, the first train in 1915, the first village hall in 1934, and the organization of the Watertown library in 1939.