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Lewis, George L
railroad president, was born May 31, 1857, in Buffalo, N. Y.
In 1893 he was elected president of the Portage Creek and Rich Valley railway.
Lewis, Mrs. Harriet
author, was born in 1841. She is the author of Amber, the Adopted; and Her Double Life. She died in 1878.
Lewis, Henry Carvill
geologist, educator, was born Nov. 16, 1853, in Philadelphia, Pa. He furnished numerous papers on the geology and mineralogy of Pennsylvania to the Proceedings of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. He was elected professor of mineralogy in the Academy of Natural Sciences in 1880, and to the chair of geology in Haverford college in 1883. He died July 21, 1888, in England.
Lewis, Hiram Wheeler
prohibitionist, author, was born March 11, 1843, in Warren, Ohio. He was the founder of the Lewis academy of Wichita, Kan., in which city he organized the national bank in 1876, and of which he was president for sixteen years. He served one term in the Mississippi legislature in 1870-71; and for five years succeeding that time was a county sheriff.
Lewis, James T
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, governor, was born Oct. 30, 1819, in Clarendon, N. Y. He was elected to the Wisconsin state legislature in 1851; and to the state senate in 1852.
He was lieutenant-governor in 1853; secretary of state in 1861; and governor of Wisconsin in 1863.
Lewis, John Francis
farmer, United States senator, was born March 1, 1818, near Fort Republic, Va. He was a union candidate for congress in 1865, and defeated; and in 1869 was nominated for lieutenant-governor, and elected. He was elected a United States senator from Virginia in 1869, and took his seat in 1870 for the term ending in 1875.
Lewis, John H
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born July 21, 1830, in Tompkins county, N. Y. He was elected clerk of the circuit court of Knox county, Ill., in 1860; was elected a representative in the state legislature in 1874; and was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-seventh congress as a republican.
Lewis, John Kerfoot
educator, clergyman, was born March 18, 1835, in York, Pa. In 1858 he was ordained deacon, and two years later a priest in the protestant episcopal church. He was commissioned a chaplain in the United States navy in 1869, retiring from same in 1897.
Lewis, John Tillery
physical instructor, was born Jan. 6, 1874, in Homesville, Miss. He attended the Millsaps college of Jackson, Miss., in which institution he is physical director and gymnastic instructor. He also has been professor in the summer school of Higher Physical Culture at Monteagle, Tenn. cam-
Lewis, Joseph
JR., congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1803 to 1817.
Lewis, Joseph H
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 29, 1824, in Barren county, Ky. He was a member of the state legislature in 1850, 1851, 1852 and 1869. He was elected to the forty-first congress to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the forty-second congress as a democrat.
Lewis, Joseph R
lawyer, jurist. He was an early emigrant to Washington territory; and in 1872 was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for that district.