SAMUEL K. LEWIS
Samuel K. Lewis, retired farmer, is a native of Hamilton county, Ohio, born January 17, 1826. His parents, Isaac and Rachel (Kennedy) Lewis were natives of Vermont. When young people they removed to Ohio. They were the parents of nine children, six sons and three daughters, seven of whom are now living. In the early settlement of the State they took up land and made a farm. In 1835, they removed to Ripley county, Indiana, where the father died in 1858. The mother died in 1867. They were members of the Dunkard church, and took an active interest in the service of that denomination. Samuel K. Lewis was reared a farmer, and received a limited education. In 1848 he was married to Docia White, of Virginia, by whom he had two children--Bluford, born November 22, 1849, and died in Jackson county, January 30, 1865, and Rachel, now the wife of Watson Budd, born October 16, 1852. Mr. Lewis arrived in Iowa, March 16, 1859, and located in Jackson county, near Bellevue. Here he purchased two hundred and six acres of land, and followed farming until 1875. He then removed to Cass county and embarked in farming. In 1879 he came to Anita, where he has since lived a retired life. Mr. Lewis came to Iowa a poor man, but by energy and close attention to business has succeeded in accumulating a competency. Mr. Lewis is a Master Mason and a member of Obedience Lodge No. 380.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 706.
