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 LEWIS

LEWIS

son of Enoch and Alice (Jackson) Lewis and of Charles and Letitia (Wright) Miner. He was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1853, A.M., 1859, and w-as professor of mathematics at the State Nor- mal university, Illinois, 1856-57, and of mathe- matics and Greek at Troy university, 1858-61. He was U.S. deputy commissioner of internal revenue at Washington, D.C, 1863-64. He was ad- mitted to the New York bar in 1864 and practised law in New York city. He was managing editor of the New York Evening Post, 1870-71, and secretary of the Chamber of Life Insurance, 1871- 74. In 1881 he was made chairman of the execu- tive committee of the Prison association of New York ; in 1890 president of that association ; in 1895 president of the State Charities Aid associa- tion of New Jersey, and in 1897 vice-president of the National Prison association. He was also elected chairman of the commission to revise the penal laws of New Jersey in 1895. He was a delegate from the United States to the Paris congress of prisons in 1895, and was a delegate to the Democratic national convention of 1896. He lectured at Harvard and at Columbia colleges on life insurance in 1899, and at Cornell university on the principles of insurance in 1898. He re- ceived the degree of Ph.D. from the University of New York in 1877, and LL.D. from Harvard in 1903. He translated with Marvin R. Vincent, D.D., Bengel's Gnomon of the Keio Testament (1860), and is the author of : A History of the German People (1870); Harper's Latin Dic- tionary, with Professor Charles Short (1881); A School Latin Dictionary (1888); Elementary Latin Dictionary (1890); and numerous essays and addresses.

LEWIS, Clark, representative, was born in Huntsville, Ala., Nov. 8, 1840 ; son of Hickman and Virginia (Lindsay) Lewis ; grandson of Col. Joel and Miriam (Eastham) Lewis and of Col. William Lindsay, a native of Virginia ; and a descendant of John Lewis, who emigrated from Wales with his brother Robert about 1650, set- tled in Virginia, and died in Hanover county, Va., in 1726. Clark removed to Noxubee county, Miss., with his mother in 1844, shortly after the death of his father. He worked on a farm ; at- tended the district school ; took a partial course in the Somerville Institute and engaged in teach- ing school. He w^as a private in the Confederate army, 1861-65, serving in the infantry, cavalry and artillery, and was a prisoner of war at El- mira, N.Y., during the last six months of the war. He resumed school teaching in 1865 ; en- gaged as a clerk in a store, 1866-67 ; conducted a store and farm, 1867-79, and after 1879 devoted himself exclusively to planting. He was married Feb. 4, 1868, to Hattie, daughter of Tyre Spann of Noxubee county, Miss. He was a representative

in the Mississippi legislature in 1877 and a Demo- cratic representative from the fourth Mississippi district in the 51st and 53d congresses, 1889-93. He died near Macon, Miss., March 18, 1896.

LEWIS, David Peter, governor of Alabama, was born in Charlotte coimty, Va., about 1820 ; son of Peter C. and Mary Smith (Buster) Lewis. His father was of Welch and his mother of Eng- lish ancestry. He removed to Madison county, Ala., with his parents in childhood. He was well edu- cated ; studied law in Hunts- ville, Ala., and afterward, practised in Lawrence county. He represented Lawrence county in the state constitu- tional convention of 1861, and voted against secession, but eventually signed the ordinance as passed. He was elected to the Con- federate provincial congress at Montgomery by the convention, but resigned his seat. He was appointed judge of the circuit court of Alabama by Governor Shorter in 1863, and after holding that position several months, he passed through the army lines and reached Nashville, Tenn., where he remained until the close of the war. He returned to Alabama in 1865, settled at Huntsville in the practice of his profession and was elected governor of Alabama by the Repub- lican part}', serving, 1872-74. He never maiTied. He died at Huntsville, Ala., July 3, 1884.

LEWIS, Dio, reformer and author, was born in Auburn, N.Y., March 3, 1823 ; son of Maj. John C. and Delecta (Barbour) Lewis. He received a limited education ; worked in a factory, 1835-38 ; taught school, 1838-41, and studied medicine in Auburn, N.Y., 1841-44, and in the medical de- partment of Harvard, 1845. While in Boston, Mass., he assisted in editing Tlie Genius of Christianity. He settled in the practice of medicine at Port Byron, N.Y., where he mar- ried, July 11, 1849, Helen Cecelia, daughter of Dr. Peter Clark. He removed to Buffalo, N.Y. ; adopted homeopathy and published The Home- ojyathist there, 1848-53. He lectured on hj-giene and physiology in New York, Virginia and Ken- tucky, 1853-55, and settled in Boston, Mass., in June, 1860, where he founded the Boston normal physical training school in 1861 and established a sanitarium which was transferred to Lexington, Mass., in 1864, where he also established a school. He built Hotel Bellevue on Beacon street, Boston, in 1868, and leased it as a temperance hotel, and he also opened the first Turkish baths in Boston. He published Today at Philadelphia, Pa., 1871-72. He was in California, 1875-78, and in 1879 established a sanitarium at Arlington Heights, Mass., which he conducted, 1879-81. In 1881 he removed to New York city and later to