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Lewis Monument

Dedicated 1898

Robert Emmet Lewis, one of Watertown's most esteemed citizens, died at his home in Washington Street on December 8, 1904, at the close of an illness that confined him to his home for nearly a year. The cause of his death was brain trouble.

Mr. Lewis was born December 23, 1825, at Morrow, Saratoga County, New York; January 30, 1850, he was married at Glens Falls, New York, to Miss Fannie Parker, of Parkinsville, Vermont; in 1853 he came west and located in Oshkosh, from where he engaged in the sash and door business.

In 1861 he came to Watertown and in company with his brother, the late George B. Lewis, bought a sash and door factory located on the present site of the G. B. Lewis factory in Water Street; in 1869 he sold his interest to his brother and removed to Iowa; in 1892 he returned to Watertown and has since made this city his home.

In May 30, 1898, he donated to the city the elegant soldiers' monument that ornaments our city park, and a few years, previous to that erected the fine drinking fountain in West Main Street in memory of his son Clifton Lewis, who died in 1894.

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