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Lewis, George L., railroad president, was horn May 31, 1857, in Buffalo, N.Y. In 1H!>3 he waa elected pn-Hident of the Portage Creek and Rich Valley railway. Lewis, G. GriflSn, physician of Syracuse, N.V., was born Dec. 17,*18&"), in Avoca, N.Y. He is oculist to the hospital of the good shepherd; and special United States pension examiner. Lewis, Graceanna, naturalist, author, was born in 1821 in Pennsylvania. She is a naturalist of Media. Pa. iShe is the author of Position of Birds in the Animal Kingdom; Chart of the Animal Kingdom; MicroBoopic Studies of Frost Crystals; Lower Forms of Animal and Vegetable Life; Studies in Forestry; and other works.

Lewis, Mrs. Harriet, litterateur, author, was born in 1841. She was the author of

Amber, the Adopted; and Her Double Life. She died in 1878. Lewis, Henry Carvill, educator, geologist,

was born Nov.

Philadelphia, Pa. He furnished numerous papers on the geology and mineralogy of Pennsylvania to the Procwdings 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 Haverfonl college in 1883. He died July 21, 1888, in England. 16, ISSS, in

Lewis, Henry Harrison, journalist, loundauthor, was born March 29, 1863, in Anderson, Ind. In 181M) he was associate editor of Munsey's Magazine; and in 1900 established the Lewis Literary Syndicate. He is the author of A (iunner Aboard the Yankee; and At the Mikado's Court. er.

Lewis,

Henry Thomas,

soldier,

lawyer,

was born Oct. 21, 1847, in Oxford, In 1897 he became an associate justice of the state supreme court of Georgia. He was in the confed the municipal court of Buffalo in

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Hiram Wheeler, prohibitionist, author, was born .March 11, 1843, in WarHe was the founder of the Ohio. ren, Lewis academy of Wichita, Kan., in which city he organized tiie national bank in 1870, anil of which he was president for sixteen He served one term in the Missisyears. sippi legislature in 1S70-71; and for five years succei'ding that time was a county Lewis,

sheriff.

Lewis, Irving Jefferson, editor, was born Cleveland, Ohio. Since 1904 he has been ot the New York Morning Telegraph. Lewis, Isaac Ives, merchant, banker, legislator, was born Feb. 7, 1825, in Meriden, in

managing editor

During 1854-71 he was a successful merchant and real estate dealer of Minneapolis, Minn.; and

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during 1871-90 superintendent

mines in and Idaho.

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Montana In

1867-

68 he was a member 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 Helria. He is now a successful merchant and banker at Ketchum, Idaho; and president nt the First national bank of that city, which was organized in 1884. of

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Lewis, Isaac Newton, educator, lawyer, author, was born Dec. 25, 1848, in alpole, Mass. He received the rudimenta 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 tauglit school in the Eliot high school and has 611ed a professorship in the Chelsea academy. He _ lias been president of the Union publishing coni[)any; president of the Maple Grove cemetery, and served with distinction as judge. lie 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; jurist,

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e«»nMtant ture.

Hours

Sunny

I^ands;

and a

contributor to periodical

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Lewis, James Hamilton, law^yer, congressman, WHS born May 18, 1863, in Danville, 'a. In 1885 he was elected to the Waahiii;;ton territorial senate as a democrat for the eleventh district; and was nominated lor govc'rnor in 1892, and declined the nomination because opposed to the platform. He was one of the two nominees of the demoeratH 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 wais elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat; and in 1913-19 was a member of the United States senate. Lewis, James Ky.,

was

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county, Ky. bank.

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P.,

banker of Whitesburg, 1809, in Letcher 8,

S<*pt. is

president of the Union

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