Lewis, John Francis – Lewis, Zachariah
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 Frederick
lawyer, orator, was born Sept. 10, 1860, in Philadelphia, Pa. He received his education in the public schools of Philadelphia, and was a graduate of the Central High school of that city. He has attained success at the bar; has been president of the Law academy of Philadelphia, and was formerly its prothonotary. He is chairman of the executive committee of the Philadelphia Humane society; president of the American Humane union; and vice-president of the Merchants' Trust company. He is identified with many charitable institutions; is secretary of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb; and for m many years was president of the Lutheran association of Philadelphia, and also of the Missionary society of St. John's Lutheran church.
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 T
soldier, lawyer, was born Nov. 6, 1838, in Lewis county, Mo.
He served four years in the confederate army under General Price's command.
For eight years he was cashier of the Canton Savings bank; and for six years was mayor of that city. In 1876 he was a presidential elector on the Tilden and Hendricks ticket; and was prominent in politics during the trying times of reconstruction; and has always been a consistent democrat. He is now one of the foremost lawyers of Texas at San Antonio.
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, John William
lawyer, congressman, was born near Greensburg, Ky.
He was a member of the republican state central committee of Kentucky from 1878 to 1891, and was chairman of the same in the state paign of 1887; and was the republican candidate for elector for his district in the presidential campaign of 1892. He has been often elected special judge of Marion circuit court, and served as special judge in circuit courts of Marion, Taylor and other counties of the judicial district. He was nominated for representative in congress by the republican convention, June, 1894, and was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
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.
Lewis, Joshua
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1744 in Virginia. He was an early emigrant to the territory of Orleans; and in 1806 was appointed judge of the United States court for that district. died June 5, 1833, in New Orleans, La.
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Lewis, Juan
soldier, public official, poet. Col. Lewis is connected with the United States patent office at Washington, D. C., in which city he is also chairman of the Lewis Printing company.
He has delivered dedication poems at reunions; has written extensively for the periodical press; and is the author of a volume of poems.
His poems have been given a place in Poets of America and in other standard collections; and also constantly appear in the leading periodicals of the east.
Lewis, Laurence
lawyer, author, was born June 20, 1857, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer of Philadelphia; and the author of Pennsylvania Courts in the Seventeenth Century; History of the Bank of North America; Memoir of Edward Shippen; and Original Land Titles in Philadelphia. He died in 1890.
Lewis, Meriwether
explorer, governor, was born Aug. 18, 1774, near Charlottesville, Pa. He was made governor of Louisiana territory in 1807; and restored the country from strife and dissensions to order. He died by his own hand Oct. 8, 1809, near Nashville, Tenn.
Lewis, Morgan
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, governor, was born Oct. 16, 1754, in New York city. He was judge of the supreme court of New York in 1792; chief justice in 1801; and governor from 1804 to 1807.
He was a member of the state legislature from 1808 to 1811. He was appointed quartermaster general with the rank of brigadier-general in 1812; and major-general in 1813. In 1814 he was entrusted with the defense of New York city; subsequently devoted himself to literature and agriculture. In 1835 was president of the New York Historical society. He died Oct. 16, 1854, in New York city.
Lewis, Nathaniel W
soldier, horticulturist, state senator, was born Sept. 11, 1831, in Washington county, Vt. He taught school for awhile, and in 1858 moved to Calhoun county, Mich. In 1862 he enlisted as a private in an independent regiment known as Merrill's Horse; was promoted through the grades to lieutenant; and was mustered out in the fall of 1865. He is a successful fruit grower and nurseryman of Goblesville, Mich.; has filled numerous offices of trust; and served two years, during 1878-79, as a member of the Michigan state senate.
Lewis, Richard James
lawyer, state legislator, was born Nov. 22, 1851, in New York city. In 1885 he was elected to the New York assembly from New York city.
Lewis, Mrs. Sadie
poet, was born Feb. 14, 1859, in Pleasant Gap, Pa. She is the author of a number of poems.
Lewis, Seth
lawyer, jurist. He was an early emigrant to the territory of Mississippi; and in 1800 was appointed chief justice of the United States court for that district.
Lewis, Taylor
educator, author, was born in 1802 in New York. He was an educator of note who was professor of Greek in Union college from 1849 until his death. He was the author of The Platonic Theology; The Bible and Science; Six Days of Creation; Defense of Capital Punishment (with G. B. Cheever); The Divine-Human in the Scriptures; States' Rights; Heroic Periods in the Nation's History; and The Light by which we See Light. He died in 1877.
Lewis, Thomas
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1803 to 1804, when his seat was successfully contested by A. Moore.
Lewis, Thomas D
lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 15, 1865, in Salt Lake City. In 1896 he was elected a member of the first Utah state legislature.
Lewis, Weston
railroad president, was born Dec. 26, 1850. Since 1890 he has been president of the Kennebec Central railroad at Gardiner, Maine.
Lewis, William
soldier, was born in 1765 in Virginia. He was a lieutenantcolonel of Kentucky volunteers in the war of 1812. He died Jan. 17, 1825, in Little Rock, Ark.
Lewis, William
lawyer, jurist, was born in the state of Pennsylvania. In 1791 he was appointed a judge of the United States court for the district of Pennsylvania.
Lewis, William David
translator, was born Dec. 22, 1792, in Christiana, Del.
He translated and published the Bokesarian Fountain, by Alexander Pushkin, and other poems by various Russian authors.
He died April 1, 1881, near Florence, N. J.
Lewis, William David
soldier, was born in 1828 in Philadelphia, Pa. He served in the civil war, and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers.
He died Jan. 19, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Lewis, William J
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1817 to 1819.
Lewis, Winslow
physician, surgeon, author, was born July 8, 1799, in Boston, Mass. He translated from the French, Gall on the Structure and Functions of the Brain; edited Paxon's Anatomy; and the Journal of the Boston Gynecological Society, one volume of which was published. He died Aug. 3, 1875, in Grantville, Mass.
Lewis, Zachariah
educator, journalist, was born Jan. 1, 1773, in Wilton, Conn. In 1803 he became editor of the New York Commercial Advertiser, and of the New York Spectator. He died Nov. 14, 1840, in Brooklyn, N. Y.