A native of Lincoln County, Kentucky, was born September 4, 1806. He was sixteen years old when his parents immigrated to Indiana, where he assisted his father in making a home, attending school three months in winter in a log school-house. In 1838, Mr. Lewis was married to Eliza Donnell. Since coming to Iowa, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis have lived on the same section where they first made their home. In early life Mr. Lewis was a Whig, and an ardent admirer of Henry Clay. After the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, he affiliated with the Freesoilers until the formation of the Republican Party, in which he took an active part. In 1856 he was elected to the State Legislature, and in 1859 to the State Senate, filling those important offices with credit to himself, and satisfaction to his constituents. Mr. Lewis is emphatically a self-made man. In early life he had but limited opportunities, but being always a student, and blessed with a retentive memory, has become unusually well read. He and his wife were life-long Christians and members of the Presbyterian Church, of which for many years he was an Elder. An old and well-known resident of the county, Mr. Lewis has the respect and esteem of all its citizens.
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