Lewis, Daniel – Lewis, James T
Lewis, Daniel
physician, was born Jan. 17, 1846, in Alfred, N. Y. Since 1895 he has been president of the New York state board of health; and has made many valuable contributions to the medical periodicals.
Lewis, Daniel F
railroad president, was born March 28, 1849, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1886 he was elected president of the Brooklyn City railway; and is also president of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad company.
Lewis, David P
governor. He was governor of Alabama from 1872 to 1874.
While governor of Alabama he was instrumental in the passing of a number of laws important to the industrial development of that state. He also held most of the public offices in the gift of his state.
Lewis, Dio
physician, author, was born March 3, 1826, in Auburn, N. Y. He was a well-known Boston physician and health reformer. He was the author of New Gymnastics; Our Girls; Our Digestion; Chastity; and Weak Lungs and How to Make Them Strong, are among his most important works. He died May 21, 1886, in Yonkers, N. Y.
Lewis, Dixon Hall
congressman, United States senator, was born Aug. 10, 1802, in Hancock county, Ga. He represented Alabama in congress from 1829 to 1843; and from 1844 until his death was a senator in congress. He died Oct. 25, 1848, in New York.
Lewis, Edmonia
sculptor, was born July 4, 1845, near Albany, N. Y. Her works, which show considerable ideality and talent, have found their chief patronage abroad. Among them are The Freedwoman; Death of Cleopatra, a vividly realistic work, sent to the Centennial exhibition of 1876; The Old Arrow-Maker and His Daughter; Hagar; and Rebecca at the Well.
Lewis, Edmund Darch
artist, was born Oct. 17, 1837, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Up to 1876 he worked principally at landscape painting, but since then has devoted himself to marine views. Among his works are Queen of the Antilles; Valley of the Umri; Autumn on the Susquehanna; Midday on Lake George; Fairmount Park; Bass Rocks after a Storm; Indian Rock of an Afternoon; and The Casino at Narragansett Pier.
Lewis, Edward Parke Custis
soldier, planter, state legislator, diplomat, was born Feb. 7, 1837, in Audley, Va. At the beginning of the civil war he entered the confederate army; and served throughout the war, rising to the rank of colonel. In 1875 he settled in Hoboken, N. J.; and in 1877 was elected a member of the New Jersey house of delegates.
He died Sept. 3, 1892, in Hoboken, N. J.
Lewis, Edward Taylor
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 26, 1836, in Opelousas, La. He served in the confederate army throughout the civil war, rising to the rank of captain. In 1865 he was elected a representative in the state legislature; and was elected a representative from Louisiana to the forty-eighth congress, to fill a vacancy.
Lewis, Elijah Banks
merchant, banker, state senator, congressman, was born March 27, 1854, in Dooly county, Ga.
He was elected to the Georgia state senate for the years 1894-95; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Lewis, Elisha Joseph
physician, author, was born in 1820 in Baltimore, Md. He is a Philadelphia physician; and the author of Hints to Sportsmen; and The American Sportsman.
Lewis, Ellis
lawyer, jurist, author, was born May 16, 1798, in Lewisberry, Pa.
In 1843 he was made president judge of the second district; in 1851 he was elected a justice of the state supreme court; and in 1854-67 was chief justice of Pennsylvania. He published Abridgment of the Criminal Law of the United States.
He was one of the commissioners to revise the criminal code of Pennsylvania. He died March 19, 1871, in Philadelphia.
Lewis, Enoch
educator, author, was born Jan. 29, 1776, in Radnor, Pa. He was an educator among the Friends of Pennsylvania; and the author of Vindication of the Society of Friends; Oaths; Baptism; and Life of William Penn. He died June 14, 1856, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Lewis, Mrs. Estelle Anna
BLANCHE [ROBINSON], author, poet, was born in April, 1824, near Baltimore, Md. She was a Brooklyn writer whose life was largely spent in Europe. She was the author of Sappho of Lesbos; Records of the Heart; Child of the Sea; Myths of the Minstrel; and Helémah, or the Fall of Montezuma. She died Nov. 24, 1880, in England.
Lewis, Francis
signer of the declaration of independence, was born in March, 1713, in Wales. In 1735 he settled in New York as a merchant; and in the prosecution of his business visited Russia and other parts of Europe. He became one of the Sons of Liberty; was a delegate to the continental congress from 1776 to 1779; signed the articles of confederation; and was also one of the signers of the declaration of independence.
He died Dec. 30, 1803, in New York city, N. Y.
Lewis, George John
journalist, banker, legislator, was born March 28, 1861, in Watertown, Minn. For ten years he has been a successful banker of Boise, Idaho. He served with distinction as a member of the second Idaho legislature; and during 1897-98 was secretary of state of Idaho. In 1897 he was the democratic candidate for the United States senate from Idaho.
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, 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
Lewis, Isaac Ives
merchant, banker, legislator, was born Feb. 7, 1825, in Meriden, Conn. During 1854-71 he was successful merchant and real estate dealer of Minneapolis, Minn.; and during 1871-90 was superintendent of mines in Montana and Idaho. In 1867- 68 he was a member of the Minnesota house of representatives. In 1875-76 and again in 1877-78 he served with distinction as a member of the legislative council of Montana at Helena. He is now a successful merchant and banker at Ketchum, Idaho; and president of the First National bank of that city, which was organized in 1884.
Lewis, Isaac Newton
educator, lawyer, jurist, author, was born Dec. 25, 1848, in Walpole, Mass. He received the rudiments of his education in the Eliot High school of Boston, Mass.; received the degree of A. B. from Harvard college in 1873; and the degrees of A. M. and LL. B. from the Boston university. He taught school in the Eliot High school and has filled a professorship in the Chelsea academy. He has been president of the Union Publishing company; president of the Maple Grove cemetery, and served with distinction as judge. He has traveled extensively in Europe, Palestine, Egypt, India and Japan, making a complete tour around the world in 1887-88. He is a successful lawyer of Boston, Mass.; is the author of Immoriam; Pleasant Hours in Sunny Lands; and a constant contributor to periodical literature.
Lewis, James Hamilton
lawyer, congressman, was born May 18, 1863, in Danville, Va. In 1885 he was elected to the Washington territorial senate as a democrat for the eleventh district; and was nominated for governor in 1892, and declined the nomination because opposed to the platform. He was one of the two nominees of the democrats in the legislature of 1894 for United States senator; and in the national democratic convention in Chicago, 1896, his name was presented by the state of Washington for vice-president of the United States. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
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.