William Henry Lewis

LEWIS, WILSON

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/8/2004 at 22:56:32

W. H. Lewis, Douglas Twp., proprietor of the Winterset nursery, Sec. 36; P.O. Winterset; born in Chatauqua county, New York, in 1840, and came with his parents to Iowa in 1849; he was raised on a farm and attended the high school in the town where they resided; he read law and was admitted to the bar in 1865, before Judge Gray; he practiced his profession for a short time and then entered the office of C. D. Bevington & J. J. Hutchings, and while in their employ started his nursery and to which for the past ten years he has given his attention, and the reputation of which is being more widely extended each year; he served an unexpired term of county judge by appointment, and has held the office of county supervisor six years; he was appointed superintendent of the construction of the courthouse and performed his duties to the entire satisfaction of the county; he also has charge of the building of the ward school house and the insane building at the poor farm, and his record for honor and fidelity to the county’s interest is a worthy tribute to one of Madison county’s best citizens; he married Miss Emma Wilson in 1864; she was born in Springfield, Pa.: their family consists of four children: Francis, Frederick, George and an infant daughter.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 603