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Yonkers, X.Y. He travelled extensively lectur- ing on hygiene and temperance, and he originated the women's temperance crusade in Ohio. In 1883 he established Dio Lewis's Monihli/. and also Dio Lewis's Treasury in 1886. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Amherst college in 1864. He is the author of : Xeiv Gymnastics (1862); Weak Lungs and Hoiv to Make TJiem Stroiig (1863); Our Digestion (1865); Talks about People's Stotnachs (1870); Our Girls (1871) ; Chas- tity (1812); Young Women (1874); Prohibition a Failure (1875): Gijpsies (1881); In a Nutshell (188:i). He died in Yonkers, N.Y., May 21, 1886.

LEWIS, Dixon Hall, senator, was born in Dinwiddle county, Va., Aug. 10, 1802. He re- moved to Hancock county, Ga.. witii his parents in childhood, prepared for college at Mount Zion, Ga., and was graduated from South Carolina college. He was admitted to the bar in 1823 and settled in tiie practice of law in Montgomery, Ala. He was a rejjresentative in the Alabama legisla- ture, 1825-27. and during this time advocated the removal of the remaining Indian tribe from the state. He was a representative from Alabama in the 21st-28tli congresses 1829-44, resigning his seat in 1844 to accept the appointment by Gov- ernor Fitzpatrick as U.S. senator, in place of W. R. King, appointed U.S. minister to France. He served the remainder of the term expiring March 3, 1847, and was re-elected for the term expiring March 3, 1853, defeating W. R. King and Arthur F. Hopkins, and was chairman of tlie committee on finance. He married a daughter of Gen. John Elmore of Augusta county, Ala. He was a trustee of the University of Alabama, 1828-31, during the formative period of the institution. He died in New York city, Oct. 25, 1848.

LEWIS, Edmonia, sculptor, was born near Albany, N.Y., July 4. 1845 ; daughter of a Negro father and Chippewa Indian mother, both of whom died when she was three years old and she lived for several years with the Indians. Her brother sent her to primary school, and she early dis- played a talent for modeling in clay and was en- couraged by friends in Boston to study the art. Among her first examples was a portrait bust of Col. Robert G. Shaw, exhibited in Boston, Mass., in 1865. She was sent to study in Rome in 1867 where she made a permanent home, making friends with Harriet Hosmer, Charlotte Cushman and other Americans of influence. Her works include : The Freedicoman, executed in Boston (1867) ; The Death of Cleopatra, sent to the Centennial Exhibition,^ Philadelphia (1876) ; The Old Arrou'-Maker and his Daughter; Hagar ; Rebecca at the Well ; Asleep ; and portrait busts of Henry W. Longfellow, John Brown and Charles Sumner. There are two examples of her work in the United States : The Marriage of

HiQwatha, owned by Mrs. Laura Curtis BuUard of New York, and a portrait bust of Abraham Lin- coln in the lil)rary at San Jose, Cal.

LEWIS, Edmund Darch, painter, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 17, 1837 ; son of David and Camilla (Phillips) Lewis ; grandson of David and Anna Clifford (Smith) Lewis and of William and Mary (Darch) Phillips, and a descendant of Thomas Darcii, who was reader to the King of England at the time of William and Mary. He attended a private school in Philadelphia until 1852, when he became a pupil of Paul Weber, with whom he studied until 1857, and then opened a studio in Philadelphia. He devoted himself to landscape painting until 1876, and to marine subjects from that date. He made a notable collection of paintings, antique furniture and bric-a-brac. His works include : Autum7i on the Sxisquehanna (1860); Queen of the Antilles (1863) ; Valley of the Uviri (1864) ; Midday on Lake George (1873); Fairmount Park (1878); Bass Rocks after a Storm (1880); Lidian Rock of an Afternoon (1887); Tlie Casino at Narragansett Pier (1892).

LEWIS, Edward Parke Custis, diplomat, was born in Audley, Clarke county, Va., Feb. 7, 1837; son of Lorenzo and Esther Maria (Coxe) Lewis ; grandson of Lawrence and Eleanor Parke (Custis) Lewis and of Dr. John Redman Coxe (q.v.) ; great-grandson of Gen. Fielding and Elizabeth (Washington) Lewis and of John Parke and Eleanor (Calvert) Custis, and greaf'^-grandson of Major John and Frances (Fielding) Lewis and of Daniel Parke and Martha (Dandridge) Cvistis. He was graduated from the University of Virginia in 1859, was admitted to the bar, and engaged in planting in Virginia. He opposed the secession of Virginia, but remained loyal to his state and served in the Confederate army throughout the civil war, attaining the rank of colonel. He was an aide on Gen. J. E. B. Stuart's staff, was wounded several times, and was a prisoner of war at Camp Chase, Ohio, and at Fort Delawaie for fifteen months. He was twice married, his second wife being the widow of Robert M. T. Garnett, and a daughter of Edwin A. Stevens of Castle Point, Hoboken, N.J. He removed to Hoboken in 1875, where he resided until his death. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1877 ; a delegate to the Democratic national convention at Cincinnati, Ohio, June 22, 1880, and was appointed U.S. minister to Portu- gal by President Cleveland in 1885. retiring in 1889. He died in Hoboken, N.J.,Sept. 3, 1892.

LEWIS, Elijah Banks, representative, was born in Dooly county, Ga., March 27, 1854. He attended the common school and removed to Montezuma. Ga., in 1871, and subsequently l>e- came a partner in his father's banking and mer- cantile house. He was state senator, 1894-95, and