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1900); Letters to Young Preachers and Their Hearers {1900}, and a large number of tracts upon various ])liases of the Sabbath question.

LEWIS, Andrew, soldier, was born in Don- egal, Inland, iu 1720; son of John and Mar- garet (Lynn) Lewis. The Lewises were Welsh and the Lynns Scotch. John Lewis came to America with his wife and three sons, Andrew, Thomas, and William, in 1732, and they were among the first white settlers of Bellefonte, Augusta county, Va. Andrew was married in 17:19 to Elizabeth Givens of Augusta county. He volunteered in the military expedition, planned to take possession of the Ohio region in 1754, and was with Washington at the surrender of Fort Necessity. He commanded the Sandy Creek expedition in 1756, was taken prisoner at Fort Duquesne in 1758 and carried to Montreal. On his return he vindicated the conduct of the Virginia troops against the charges of Major Grant. He was a commissioner at Fort Stanwix, New York, in 1768, to effect a treaty with the Six Nations; commanded the forces at Point Pleasant, Va., Oct. 10, 1774, having been made a brigadier-general, and served as a delegate in the Virginia house of burgesses for several years. He M'as a delegate from Botetourt to the Virginia conventions of May and June, 1775, and was commissioned brigadier-general in the Conti- nental army by congress in 1776, notwithstand- ing the recommendation of Washington that he be made a major-general. He drove Lord Dun- more from Gwynn's Island, July 9, 1776, and re- signed from the army in 1777 to engage in the civil service of Virginia. He was a founder and early pastor of Augusta academy and an original trustee of Washington college, Lexington, 1776- 81. His statue occupies one of the pedestals on the Washington monument, Richmond, Va. He died in Bedford county, Va., Sept. 26, 1781.

LEWIS, Bunvell Boykin, educator, was born in Montgomer}% Ala., July 7, 1838. His father, a distinguished physician, died when he was a child, and his mother, a daughter of the Hon. Eli Shortridge, judge of the cir- cuit court of Alabama, re- moved toMontevallo, Shelley county. He was graduated at the University of Alabama in 1857, studied law in the office of his uncle, George D. Shortridge, and was admitted to the bar in 1859. He served in the Confederate army, 1861-65, rising to the rank of captain in the 2d Alabama cavalry. He re- sumed the practice of law in Montevallo; was a representative in the general assembh', 1^70-72; removed to Tuscaloosa and was a representative in the 44th congress, 1875-77. He I'eceived the

honorary degree of LL.D. from tiie University of Alabama in 1879. He was elected to the 40th con- gress in 1878, serving 1879-80. He resigned in 1880 to accept tiie presidenc}- and professorship of con- stitutional and international law in the University of Alabama as successor to Gen. Josiah Gorgas, re- signed, and he served from July, 1880, up to the timeof his deatii, at Tuscaloosa, Ala., Oct. 11, 1885.

LEWIS, Charles Bertrand, journalist, was born in Liverpocd, Ohio, Feb. 15, 1842; son of George and Clarissa Lewis. He was a student at the Michigan State Agricultural college; an ap- prentice to a country printer, and a soldier in the civil war. While on his way to Kentuck\^ to take a position on a weekly newspaper, he was severely injured in a steamboat accident, and after his recovery he set up without copy an article entitled " How it Feels to be Blown Up," which he signed " M. Quad." He afterward re- pox-ted the legislature for one session for the Detroit Fre^ Press, and at its close went to Detroit and was a member of its staff. He had charge of a humorous column, but his work extended to editorials, market reports, and politi- cal sketches. Among the successes which es- tablished his reputation as a humorist may be mentioned, Police Court Scenes, begun in 1876; Ute Lime Kiln Club, and Short Talks n-iili Boys, begun in 1885. When he joined the staff of the Free Press the paper had a circulation of about 5000 copies weekly, which increased during his connection with the journal to upwards of a quarter of a million. He left the Free Press in 1891, at the instance of a newspaper syndicate, and made his residence in Brooklyn, N.Y.

LEWIS, Charles Willard, educator, was born in New Trenton, Ind., Aug. 13, 1860; son of Natiian and Nancy (Rafferty) Lewis. He attended the National Normal university at Lebanon. Ohio, and De Pauw university, and was graduated from Moores' Hill college, Ind., B.S., 1890, M.S., 1893. He was married March 25, 1887, to Bertha Cruikshank. He was a district and village school teacher for eight j-ears; principal of the high school at Brookville, Ind., 1886-89; professor in Moores' Hill college, 1890-99, during which time he was vice-president for three years, and acting- president, 1897-98, and in 1898 was elected j)resi- dent. He was a member of the examining board of the Indiana conference: speaker of the Inter- national Epworth League conA-ention held at Indianapolis in 1898, and a delegate to the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church lield in Chicago in 1900. He received the hon- orary degree of D.D. from De Pauw university in 1899.

LEWIS, Charlton Thomas, reformer, was born in West Chester, Pa., Feb. 25, 1834: son of Joseph I. and Mary S. (Miner) Lewis, and grand-