Lewis, Ida
heroine, was born Feb. 25, 1842, in Newport, R. I. She is called the Grace Darling of America. Her father, the keeper of Lime Rock lighthouse, becoming paralytic, Ida was obliged to use the oars herself in providing for the family, which made her so expert that at the early age of sixteen she was numbered with the brave, by rescuing drowning people. Eleven lives were saved by her in as many years; but the last brave deed of March 29, 1869, when she rescued two soldiers from Fort Adams, whose boat had capsized, gave her national popularity. a