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Lewelling, Lorenzo D

educator, journalist, governor, was born Dec. 21, 1846, in Salem, Iowa. He commenced life as a common laborer on the Burlington and Missouri railroad; then drove cattle for the quartermaster's department of the union army in Tennessee; then joined a bridge building corps at Chattanooga. At the close of the war he secured a discharge and attended Knox college of Galesburg and other institutions to secure a better education. He subsequently was employed in bridge building; then again entered educational work; and subsequently became editor and owner of The Register, a weekly republican journal of mis native town. For fifteen years he and his wife had charge of the Iowa State Reform school for Girls; and he became widely known as a penologist. In 1887 he moved to Wichita, Kan., and five years later was elected governor of that state. a