Death and Family
Hewitt died in 1903, and was interred at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. His last words, after he took his oxygen tube from his mouth, were "And now, I am officially dead."
Hewitt's daughters, Amy, Eleanor, and Sarah Hewitt, built an astonishing decorative arts collection that was for years exhibited at the Cooper Union and later became the core collection of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. His son, Peter Cooper Hewitt (1861–1921), was a successful inventor, while another son, Edward Ringwood Hewitt (1866–1957), was also an inventor, a chemist and an early expert on fly-fishing. He published Telling on the Trout, among other books. Hewitt's youngest son, Erskine Hewitt (1878–1938), was a lawyer and philanthropist in New York City. He donated Ringwood Manor to the State of New Jersey in 1936.
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