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 H£RIUNaSUAW'8 LJBKARY OF AMERICAN BIOQRAPHY. S*lem, Iowa.

He commenced

life

as a com-

Lewis,

mon

Aug.

souri

»tyled

laborer on the Hurliiigtou and Mis railroad; then drove cuttle lor the quartermaster's department of tbc union army in Tennessee; then joined a bridge building corps at Chattanooga. At the cloiie of the war he secured a discharge and attended Knox college of (JalcHburg and other institations. He subsequently was employed in bridge building; then again 'entered edu-

cational work; and subsequently became editor and owner of The Regi»tcr, a weekly republican journal of iiis native town. For fifteen years he and his wife had charge of the Iowa state reform sdiool for girls; and he became vi<hdy known as a penologist. In 1887 he moved to Wichita, Kan., and in 18B3-95 was the eleventh governor of that lied Sept 3, 1900, in Arkansas atate. T[(

Kau. Lewia, Ralph De Cofdova, clergyman, au-

Citjr,

Alonio, author,

poet,

was bom

Ho was once was the author of Forest Flowers and Sea Shells; and History of Lynn. He died Jan. 21, 1801, in Lynn,

2b, 1794, in

The Lynn Bard,

Ma.ss. lie

Lynn, Mass. Lewis, Alvin Fayette, educator, college was born Oct* 9, 1801, in Warren county, Ky. In he was

president, autlior,

professor of the

West Florida

state college;

and in 1904-U6 he was president of Waynesburg college of Pennsylvania; and sines 1000 has lieen president of Ogdcn college at Bowling Cireeu, Hy. He is the author of Higher Kducation in Kentudcy. Lewis, Andrew, soldier, was born alxait 1720, in Ireland. He was a major in Washington's Virginia regimrat, and in 1774 wiien hostilities bad begun again on the western frontier of Virginia, he received the

appointment of brigadier-generaL

He was

thor,

was born in 1844 in the West IndicB. He was a Hebrew clergvman in Brooklyn and elsewhere. He was the author of Wlnit is Judaism. Mo died in 1886.

a member ot the house of burgesses for several years; and a delegate to the Virginia conventions in 1775. He died Mareh York city. •iJ. I7;»ii. ill, v

poser,

Lewing, Adela^ educator, musician, comwas bom Aug. ti, 18U(i, in Germany. she composed Wanderer's Niglit Song; Proposal; By the Khine; Evening Kest; Winter-Night; and many other songs. Among her piano compositioiiH are Old Frem h Dance; Meditation; Prelude and Scherzino;

Lewis, Arthur author, was bom

Qret,ttng; Children's in the Forest.

southern passenger agent of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Norfolk, Va. He is president of the Bohemian society of America. He is the author of Life Without Love; Lights that Have Gone Out; Sunshine Thro* the Rain; Stub Bnds of Thought; and various other works.

March; and Children

Lewisi Abner, congressman, was born in New York. He was a member of the New York state asisnibly from Chautauqua county in 1838-3t>; and in 1843-47 he was a representative from New York to the twenty-ninth congress. He died in Chautauqua county, N.Y. Lewis, Abram Herbert, clergyman, author, was* born Nov. 17, 18.36. iti Srott, N.Y. He IS a .sfeutli day baptist clergyman of Plainfield, He is the author of Sabbath and Sunday, Biblical Teachings Concerning the Sabbath and Sunday; Critical History of the Sabbath and the Study Critical History of Sunday Legislation Surviving in

Paganism in Christianity; Swift Decadance of Sunday; and other

Christianity;

works.

He

died in 1908 in Plainfield, N.J.

Lewis, Alexander, clergyman, author, was born in December, 1804, in Hudson, Wis. In 1896-190(5 he was pastor of the Congregaand tional church of Worcester, Mass.; since 1906 has filled a pastorate in Kansas

Mo. Tic is the antlior of Manhood Making; and Sermons Preached in Eng-

City. land.

Lewis, Alfred Henry, journalist, author, in 1842 in Ohio. In 1898 he established the Verdict, a humorous weekly of New York city. He is the author of Wolfville. episodes of cowboy life; Peggy O'Xeil; The Black Lion Inn; The President

was born

and

When Men Grew

TalL

Ktighiiid.

He

Gordon,

Mareh

railroad official, 25, 1870, in London,

is

Lewis, Barbour, soldier, htwyer, jurist, congressman, was bom in 1824 In Alburg, 't. He entered the army as a captain of volunteers in 1861; and served until 1804. In 180S he was appointed, by the military authorities, judge tor the district of Memphis, and served as such in 1803-04. in 1807-00 be was president of the board of county commissioners of SliclljV county, Tenn. In 1873-75 he was a representative from Tennessee to the forty-third eongress as a republican. Lewis, Burwell Boyldn, soldier, hiw^er, state legislator, congressman, was bora July 1H;18, in Montgomery, Ala. He resided 8, at Monticello and Tuscaloosa, Ala.; and was engaged in the hron busiasss. He served in the ronfedtTiite army as an officer. He was a presid<'ntial elector in 18ti8; and served in the state legislature in 1070i*72. In 187577 and 1S7'J-81 he was a repref*etitnt ive from Alabama to the forty-fourtli aiiii;ii]'s Odds; Goaks and Tears; The Lime Kiln Club; Field, Fort and Sketch Book of the Civil War; Fleet; Sawed-<rfr Sketches; and Mr. and Mrs. Bow-

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