Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Charles W. Watson
Importer/Civil Service Commissioner
Centurion, 1904–1917
Proposed by
D. B. St. John Roosa and William Dean Howells
D. B. St. John Roosa and William Dean Howells
born
February 26, 1841
New York (Manhattan), New York
New York (Manhattan), New York
died
August 18, 1917
New York (Manhattan), New York
New York (Manhattan), New York
elected
May 7, 1904
Age sixty-three
Age sixty-three
buried
Mount Auburn Cemetery,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Century Memorial
Charles White Watson was a good Centurian whose familiar face will long be pleasurably remembered. A Civil Service Commissioner under Mayor Strong, he fulfilled his office with fidelity, and afterwards continued active in movements for civic improvements and Civil Service Reform. He was a student and lover of the arts, a friend of painters and sculptors, and a man of many quiet charities: a lover of beauty—visible, moral, and spiritual.
Henry Osborn Taylor
1918 Century Association Yearbook
