Physician
Centurion, 1916–1939
Born 8 March 1862 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 20 December 1939 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Green-Wood Cemetery
, Brooklyn, New York
Proposed by Samuel W. Lambert and Theron G. Strong
Elected 1 April 1916 at age fifty-four
Century Memorial
In that slender minority of Centurions who were born in New York City stood Robert Lewis, an active practitioner in the treatment of ear, nose and throat since 1892. He was a professor at Columbia University for thirty-one years and a surgeon in the aural department of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary from 1901 until 1928. Throughout these many years of labor as teacher and specialist he found time to contribute frequently to medical journals on otological topics and to serve the national associations concerned with his fields of activity. He was president of the American Otological Society in 1920. For the past decade he had virtually retired from active practice. At the Century he lunched chiefly with his friends and associates of the medical profession, who remember him as rich in years and the content of a long life usefully and happily lived.
Geoffrey Parsons
1939 Century Memorials
