Importer/Civil Service Commissioner
Centurion, 1904–1917
Born 26 February 1841 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 18 August 1917 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Mount Auburn Cemetery
, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Proposed by D. B. St. John Roosa and William Dean Howells
Elected 7 May 1904 at age sixty-three
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
