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 384: LEWIS the county of Botetourt in the house of bur- gesses for several years, and was a member of the convention of March and June, 1775. In 'the same year he was appointed colonel of a regiment in the continental army, and in 1776, at Washington's request, was promoted to brigadier general. One of his first acts after receiving this commission was to drive Lord Dunmore from his retreat on Gwynn's island. His post of duty was afterward in the lower part of the state, where he contracted a fever of which he died. His military abilities were highly valued by Washington, and his statue fills one of the six pedestals around the Wash- ington monument at Richmond. II. Thomas, born in county Dublin, Ireland, in 1718, died in 1790. He was a member of the Virginia house of burgesses, where he faithfully sup- ported the rights of the colonies. He advoca- ted the celebrated resolutions of Patrick Henry in the session of 1765, sat in the conventions of 1775 and 1776, and was a member of the state convention which ratified the federal constitution. HI. William, born in Ireland in 1724, died in Virginia in 1811. He was en- gaged in the French and Indian w*ars under Andrew Lewis, and served with distinction during the revolution. He obtained the rank of colonel. IV. Charles, born in Virginia, killed at the battle of Point Pleasant, Oct. 10, 1774. He served with distinction under Andrew Lewis, was a leader in the conflicts on the W. frontier of the state, and became a colonel. LEWIS, Dio, an American physician, born at Auburn, N. Y., March 3, 1823. He was edu- cated at Harvard medical school in Boston, and practised medicine at Port Byron and at Buffalo, N. Y. He published a monthly medi- cal magazine at Buffalo, in which he constantly deprecated the use of drugs, and advocated the introduction of physical exercise as a part of public education. In 1863 he settled in Bos- ton, and founded an institution for training teachers in his new system of physical educa- tion, which since 1855 he had been engaged in advocating and introducing throughout the country; and in 1864 he established in Lex- ington, Mass., a school for young women, in which all rules of government were aban- doned. In September, 1868, the buildings were burned, and a year later the school was given up. Since then he has lectured frequent- ly, principally on hygienic topics, and is now (1874) engaged in the temperance reform. He has published "New. Gymnastics" (Boston, 1862) ; " Weak Lungs, and how to make them Strong" (Boston, 1863); "Talks about Peo- ple's Stomachs" (1870); "Our Girls" (New York, 1871) ; and " Chats with Young Wo- men" (New York, 1874). LEWIS, Enoch, an American mathematician, born at Radnor, Chester co., Pa., Jan. 29, 1776, died in Philadelphia, July 14, 1856. He was educated in the principles and usages of the society of Friends. He early exhibited a re- markable talent for mathematics. At the age of 14 he was usher in a country school, and at 15 became principal. In the autumn of 1793 he removed to Philadelphia, and studied mathematics, teaching half of each day to earn his support. In 1795 he was employed as sur- veyor in a corps engaged in laying out towns in the western part of the state. From 1796 to 1799 he had charge of the mathematical school in the Friends' academy founded by William Penn in Philadelphia, and afterward was mathematical tutor at Westtown boarding school. In 1808 he opened a private school for mathematical students at New Garden, Chester co., where he taught for some years with success. He edited several mathematical * works with 'notes, and about 1819 published a treatise on arithmetic, which was followed by one on algebra, and by a work on plane and spherical trigonometry. In 1827 he became editor of a monthly periodical called the " Af- rican Observer." He wrote a life of William Penn, a treatise " On Oaths," one " On Bap- tism," a small volume reviewing Dr. Cox's "Quakerism not Christianity," and various pamphlets. In 1847 he undertook the publica- tion of the " Friends' Review," of which he was the editor till his death. LEWIS, Estelle Anna Blanche (ROBINSON), an American authoress, born near Baltimore in April, 1824. She was educated at the female seminary of Troy, N. Y. In 1841 she was married to Mr. Sydney D. Lewis, a lawyer of Brooklyn, N. Y., since which she has resided much abroad, principally in England. Her earliest writings were published in the "Fam- ily Magazine " of Albany, and she was after- ward a frequent contributor to other periodi- cals. In 1844 appeared her first volume of poems, " The Record of the Heart," containing some of her best minor pieces. It was fol- lowed by "The Child of the Sea and other Poems " (1848) and " Myths of the Minstrel " (1852). In 1863, while on a visit to the United States, she published " Helemah, or the Fall of Montezuma," a tragedy. In 1865 she returned to England, and a collection of her poems was reprinted in London in 1866. In 1868 she produced " Sappho of Lesbos " a tragedy, and in 1869 " The King's Stratagem," a tragedy. LEWIS, Francis, an American revolutionist, born at Llandaff, Wales, in March, 1713, died in New York, Dec. 30, 1803. He was educated at Westminster school, and afterward served a clerkship in a mercantile house in London. At the age of 22 he emigrated to New York, and engaged in commercial pursuits, from which he retired in 1775. In this long interval he several times visited Russia and other parts of Europe, and during the " old French war " was an agent for supplying the British troops in North America with clothing. At the sur- render of Fort Oswego he was aide to Col. Mercer, and was taken with the other prison- ers to Canada, and thence to France. At the close of the war the British government gave him 5,000 acres of land for his services. At