| Robert Lewis | |
| Death Date: | June 2, 1892 (aged 28) |
| Death Place: | Port Jervis, New York |
| Death Cause: | Lynched |
Robert Lewis was a 28-year-old African American man who was lynched in Port Jervis, New York on June 2, 1892. His lynching was attended by what the local newspaper reported was a mob of 2,000 people,[1] and may have inspired Stephen Crane's novella The Monster.[2]
Lewis was accused by the mob of assaulting a white woman, Lena McMahon, in an incident by the Neversink River, after she had possibly been meeting with her estranged suitor, a white man named Peter Foley.[3]