LEWIS, Edgar [1883]

LEWIS, BROWN, NILES

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 6/10/2010 at 22:00:54

Edgar Lewis the present postmaster of Wapsie postoffice, came to Mitchell county in the fall of 1874, and purchased the farm where he now resides, in 1882. He is the son of Samuel and Sarah (Brown) Lewis, early settlers of Rock Co., Wis., whose family comprised eight children; Edgar was born Feb. 4, 1840. He enlisted Aug. 5, 1862, in Company B, 20th Wisconsin Volunteers; was mustered out of the service at Galveston, Texas, July 14, 1865. He received a pension from disease contracted in the army. He returned to Dane Co., Wis. and remained until 1874, when he emigrated to Iowa. He was married March 22, 1868, to Carrie J. Niles, a native of Willington Conn., born in 1847. The have two children – Jessie and Benjamin E. Mr. Lewis is a republican. In the spring of 1875 his parents came to this township, where the father died Dec. 7, 1881.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, Wayne Township, page 533.