Reason had 2 strokes, which prompted him to ride in a carriage to employment after a recuperation time because he couldn't walk. He left the company five months before his death. In 1893, he perished in his house on 53rd Street in New York City. Bright's illness was named as the cause of mortality.
Charles Lewis Reason was a mathematician, philosopher, and teacher from the United States. He was the country's first black university lecturer, teaching at New York Central College in McGrawville. Charles Lewis Reason was raised in New York as among 3 sons of free persons of color Michel and Elizabeth Reason. They were from Guadeloupe and Saint-Domingue, and came to
America as immigrants in 1793, just after the Haitian Revolution began. Elwer W. and Patrick H. Reason, his siblings, were also prominent. Policarpe, their oldest daughter, died when she was four years old in 1818.
Charles and two of his siblings joined the African Free School, where they met Henry Highland Garnet, George T. Downing, and Ira Aldridge, among many others. Because Charles was a mathematics genius as a youngster, he started instructing the topic there at the age of 14. In 1835, he enrolled in the narrow Noyes Academy in Canaan. In 1849, he appeared as an educator and gives an inauguration lecture at the New York Central College, an inclusive college formed in McGraw, New York, by founders of the
American Baptist Free Mission Society. He was characterized as being of 'a quality school and outstanding intellect, very pale skin, lovely black curly hair, and a fantastic mustache' He might easily be mistaken for an Anglo-Saxon.' According to another account, he is 'one of the most royal men of the colored people in this city.'