Lewis Findlay Watson was born in
Crawford County, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and engaged in mercantile pursuits at
Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1832. He moved to
Warren, Pennsylvania 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
Warren Academy from 1839 to 1840. He resumed his former mercantile pursuits until 1860. He was engaged as an operator in
lumber and in the production of
petroleum 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
Washington, D.C., in 1890. Interment in Oakland Cemetery in Warren, Pennsylvania. ==See also==