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Lewis Findlay Watson (April 14, 1819 – August 25, 1890) was a Republican member of the
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Biography

Lewis Findlay Watson was born in
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. He attended the common schools and engaged in mercantile pursuits at
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in 1832. He moved to
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in 1835 and continued his former pursuits until 1837. He served as clerk in the office of the recorder in 1838. He studied law at the
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from 1839 to 1840. He resumed his former mercantile pursuits until 1860. He was engaged as an operator in
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and in the production of
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from 1860 to 1875. He organized and was the first president of the Conewango Valley Railroad Co. in 1861. He was elected president of the Warren Savings Bank at its organization in 1870. Watson was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress. He was again elected to the Forty-seventh Congress. Finally, he was elected to the Fifty-first Congress and served until his death in
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, in 1890. Interment in Oakland Cemetery in Warren, Pennsylvania.


See also

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Sources


The Political Graveyard
1819 births 1890 deaths Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania People from Crawford County, Pennsylvania 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub