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Lewis, Charles

Clarke,

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tihuator, colK-ge

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1840.

in

.Madison

was bt rii Nov. 7, I8ri7. in .Morliy, N.V. Ill IS!I|-!M» lu- was protesMor of l'hi;;lisb laiiguagf and liti'ratuif at Union tolbgi' t, Liiuoiii, Nib.; and in 181HM!M)2 pn-siih-iit. aiitlmr.

mother county.

was

a print-ipal of tiic KitMif intltistrial aci'dciny of 'r«-xas. In l5H>2.n4 hi- was pn-sidi lit

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of

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and

and

attended

sinci* l!t04

.dvantaj.'es of a I'olh'ge

huriiif,'

the

Kducation.

lawyer, jurist, Krie county, N.Y. civil war he serv«'d as a private

(Kt. 17,

soIdi«'r.

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in

soldier

in

army;

and

the

Union became

sergeant-major of tiie twenty-seventh regiment Iowa volunteer infantry; and was adjutant of his regiment one year. He has serve«l as district attorney f.»r the fourtii judicial district o f Iowa for four years; for sixteen years was ju2. in Ottawa. III. In ho was district judge at Huluth,

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Minn.

Since IS!(S he has been an asso<'iate justice of the state .supreme court of Minnesota.

Lewis, Charlton Miner, educator, author, 4. IStKi. in Hrooklyn, N.Y. 1S!»!» he has been pn fes^or iti Kiiglish literature in Vale university. He is the author of The Foreign Sources of Motlern Kng'ersitlcation lisli and The Beginning of Knglish Lit«'rature. Lewis, Charles S., rongressnian. was born ill Claiksburg. N'a. In ls."»4-.">,*» he was a i.'prescntative from Virginia to the tliirtylliini coii^rfss to nil a vacancy. Lewis, Charles W., sohlier. was born in California. In lSr»,"» lie was i'oloiiel in the seventh regiment California infantry; an«I in |H(»."» was brevetted brigadii-r-geiieral of viduiiteers. He died Feb. li, IH7I. Lewis, Charles Willard, educator, clergyman. «'-l!t(W» he was a pr«»fe«*sor of mathematics, and in 1808 became pn'sident of Moores Hill college of Indiana. He die«l in I1>08 in Moores Hill,

was born March

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liid

Lewis, Clarke, soldier, merchant, planter, le;;islati>r, congressman, was born Nov.

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count)

sixte^'n until years of age. w hen he entercil the .Soinerville institute; and sul)»e<|uently taught

pifsidcnt of Union rollrgc of Uolni'ar Lincoln. Neb. lie is tlir auand Uhurcii Schixd Manual;

Lewis, CI arles H.,

the

school

llonii'

was born

Noxub*-t* to Miss. lie

worked on a farm

View, thor of

county. Ala. At the age of three he accompanied his widowed

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the <'ivil war as a private in the conf«'derate army in I8t$l-ti.'». He then taught .school for awliile; for thirt«'«>n years in 18l}(i-7!> he was engag«'d ia iiiercliandising and farming on hiri own ar-

and from 187!> until liis death wari was a planter. In 1877 he elected to the .| ississippi state legislature; and in I8H4 was a candidate for eongri's.s but W..H <lefeated by the fraction of a vote. In 18S1)-!»;J he was a repn'sciitative from Mississippi to the lifty-first and lifty-seccouiit;

e.vdusively

congresses as a . 188-2. in Fort Custer. Mont. He was educateil at Vale university and Dr. Ilolbrook's military academy. As an ollicer in the United States army he ban sihmi active si-rvice in the Spanisli-. ierican war. Since 1!)0.'{ he has h«dd the rank of st'cond lieutenant in the I'nited Statics

army. Lewis, Daniel, phvsician. scientiHt, wan born Ian. 17. 1840. in Alfred. N.Y. In 1895190 1 he was president of the New York stale board of health: and has inaile inany valuable contributions to the medical periodicals.

Lewis, Daniel, railroainpany. Lewis, David John, wan luuii May I, 186!), near Osceola. Pa. In l!lll-l."» he was a member of the sixtysecond and sixty-third congresses. Lewis, David P., governor. He was the governor of .Alabama in 1872t weiity-tir.st While governor of Alabama he wa« 74. instruiiieiital in the passing of a number ol lawM important to the industrial developinent of that state.
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