The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 1024 

CHARLES E. HEWITT.

Charles E. Hewitt, a civil engineer of Yakima, was born in Iowa, October 30.
1868, a son of W. J. and Amy Ann (Bergan) Hewitt, who were farming people, and
the father, in addition to tilling the soil, was also engaged in contracting and
building. He lived for many years in Louisa county, Iowa, but has now passed
away. His widow, however, survives and has reached the advanced age of
eighty-five years. Charles E. Hewitt is a graduate of the Iowa State University
of the class of 1897, in which he completed a course in civil engineering. He
was afterward with the geological survey and did work in connection with
railways until 1903, being engaged in work in the central states. Later he
became connected with the reclamation service of the United States government
and came to Washington on the Okanogan project, having charge of it during the
second year. He was connected therewith until 1909, when he retired from the
government service and has since been engaged in private practice in Yakima. His
thorough preliminary training, his broad experience and his wide scientific
knowledge well qualify him for important duties in this connection and his
clientage is now large. His work has identified him with many important civil
engineering projects in the northwest and he has, in addition to private work,
served as water commissioner for the past three years under the state hydraulic
engineer.

In 1906 Mr. Hewitt was united in marriage to Miss Cora L. Eichar, a native of
Conway, Iowa, and to them has been born a daughter, Ruth Elizabeth. The
religious faith of Mr. and Mrs. Hewitt is that of the Presbyterian church and
in political belief he is a republican. He belongs to the Yakima Engineering
Club and also to the Pacific Northwest Society of Engineers and is held in the
highest esteem by his colleagues and contemporaries in the profession, who
recognize his superior worth and ability along engineering lines.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.