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Rh sioner of the board of admiralty, and elected a ves- tryman of Trinity church. His old age was happy and cheerful ; literature was an unfailing resource, and the society of his grandchildren a great amuse- ment. — His second son, Morgan, statesman, b. in New York city, 16 Oct., 1754; d. there, 7 April, 1844, was graduated at Princeton in 1773, and studied law. In 1774 he joined the army before Boston as a volunteer, was elected captain of a New York militia regiment, and received a com- mission as major when this regiment was taken into the Continental service as the 2d New York. In 1776 Maj. Lewis was aide to Gen. Horatio Gates, with rank of colonel and quartermaster-general of the northern army, serving throughout the cam- Faign that terminated in the battle of Saratoga. n 1778 Col. Lewis commanded at the battle of Stone Arabia and at Crown Point. In 1783 he re- sumed his legal studies, was admitted to the bar of New York, and elected a member of the assembly, first from New York city and afterward from Dutchess county. He became a judge of the court of common pleas, in 1791 attorney-general of the state, in 1792 chief justice of its supreme court, and in 1804 governor of the state. While governor he urged upon the legislature the necessity of national education, and under his administration a perma- nent fund for common schools was established, and the militia system was enlarged and rendered more efficient. From 1807 till 1812 Gov. Lewis lived at his estate at Staatsburg, Dutchess county, and paid much attention to agriculture. In 1812 Presi- dent Madison offered him the post of secretary of war, which he declined, and accepted the appoint- ment of quartermaster-general of the armies of the United States. In 1813 Gen. Lewis was promoted to the rank of major-general. He served on the Niagara frontier, captured Fort George, and com- manded at Sackett's Harbor and French Creek. At the close of the war he advanced the funds that were necessary for the discharge of American pris- oners in Canada, He remitted all arrears of rents that were due from those of his own tenants in Delaware county that had either gone or sent a son to the war, and by his good management avoided on his own estatesall anti-rent difficulties. Early in life Gen. Lewis became a Freemason, and he was elected grand master of the order in 1831. He was president of the Historical society and of the Order of the Cincinnati. At the Centennial celebration of the birth of Gen. Washington. Gen. Lewis, who was then in his seventy-ninth year, delivered an oration that gave in a graphic manner an account of Washington's military career. Gen. Lewis 7nar- ried Gertrude, daughter" of Judge Robert R. Liv- ingston, and left one daughter, Margaret. See " Biographies of Francis and Morgan Lewis," by Julia Delafield (New York. 1877).

LEWIS, Henry Carvill, geologist, b. in Phila- delphia, Pa., 16 Nov., 1853 ; d. in Manchester. Eng., 21 July, 1888. He was graduated in 1873, and in 1879 joined the state geological survey as a volun- teer, and first investigated the surface geology of southern Pennsylvania, after which he studied the glacial phenomena of the northern part of the state, and traced the great terminal moraine from New Jersey to the Ohio frontier. He furnished numerous papers on the geology and mineralogy of Pennsylvania to the "Proceedings of the Phila- delphia Academy of Natural Sciences." He was elected professor' of mineralogy in the Academy of natural sciences in 1880, and to the chair of geolo- gy in Haverford college in 1883. These places he still held, although after 1885 he was engaged in geological studies in Europe, working at micro- scopic petrology in the University of Heidelberg. He completed a map of the separate ancient gla- ciers and ice-sheets of England, Wales, and Ire- land. Prof. Lewis was a member of scientific societies in the United States and Europe, and contributed to their proceedings and to other sci- entific periodicals, including the "American Natu- ralist," of which for some time he was editor of the mineralogical department.

LEWIS, Ida, heroine, b. in Newport, R. I., in 1841. Her father was the keeper of the Lime liock light-house in Newport harbor, and she early became skilled in swimming and rowing. When eighteen years of age she rescued four young men that were upset in a boat in the harbor, and brought them safely ashore in her skiff. A little later three drunken sailors stove a hole in their boat; two swam ashore, and Miss Lewis saved the third. In 1867 she rescued three men. In 1868 she saved a small boy who had clung from the mast of a sail-boat from midnight till morning, and the next year, assisted by her brother Hosea, she rescued two sailors who had capsized in a sail- boat half a mile from the light. The citizens of Newport, R. I., presented her with a boat as a token of their admiration of her bravery. In 1870 she married William II. Wilson, of Black Rock, Conn. LEWIS, John Francis, senator, b. near Port Republic, Ya., 1 March, 1818. He was engaged in j planting for many years, was a delegate to the Yirginia convention of 1861, and the only mem- sign the ordinance of secession. He was an unsuc- cessful Union candidate for congress in 1865, and in 1869 was nominated for lieutenant-governor by j the True Republican party on the ticket with Gil- I bert 0. Walker, and elected by 2(>.<MK) majority. senate as a Republican, serving from 1870 till 1875. LEWIS, John Travers, Canadian Anglican bishop, b. in Garrycloyne castle. County Cork, Ire- land. 20 June. 1825. He was graduated at Trinity college. Dublin, ethics and logic, and gold medal- 1 ist. In July, 1848, he was made dea- con, and appoint- ed curate of New- town Butler, Canada in 184!), and was soon af- terward appoint- ed missionary at West Hawkes- bury. In 1854 he became rec- tor of St. Peter's church, Brock- ville. where he remained till his election, 13 July. 1861. as the first bishop of the new see of Ontario. His appointment was subsequently rat died by royal letters-patent, this being the last occasion on which such were issued. He was consecrated at St. George's cathedral. Kinpton, 25 March, and remained in that city, which was the seat of the diocese till 1871. when it was removed to Ottawa. Bishop Lewis was the original author and promoter of the Lambeth conferences. In November. 1885, by order of the governor-general in council, the bronze medal struck in commemoration of confederation in 1867 was presented 1847 as senior moderator in
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