Lewis

See Louis. Lewis, Andrew. Born in Donegal, Ireland, about 1720: died in Bedford County, Va., Sept. 26, 1781. An American soldier. He was major in Washington's regiment in Braddock's expedition in 1755, and commander of an expedition against the Shawne e Indians in 1756; served in the attack on Fort Duquesne in 1758, and was captured and taken to Montreal; gained the victory of Point Pleasant over the Indians, Oct. 10, 1774 (as major-general); and served as brigadier-general in the Continental army March 1, 1776, to April 5, 1777. Lewis, Charles. Born at Gloucester, England, 1753: died at Edinburgh, July 12, 1795. An English painter of still life. Lewis, Charles George. Born at Enfield, Mid dlesex, June 13, 1808: died June 16, 1880. An English engraver, best known for his engrav ings of Landseer's works. Lewis, David. Born in Wales about 1683: died at Low Leyton, E ex, April, 1760. A British poet, author of "Philip of Macedon," a tragedy (1727). Lewis, Dio. Born at Auburn, N. Y., March 3, 1823: died at Yonkers, N. Y., May 21, 1886. An American homeopathic physician, well known as a lecturer on hygiene and an advocate of various methods of physical culture. He wrote "New Gymnastics" (1862), "Weak Lungs" (1863), "Our Girls" (1871), etc. Lewis, Edmonia. Born near Albany, N. Y., 1845. An American sculptor, of African and Indian descent. Her first known work was a bust of Colonel Shaw who commanded the first colored regiment in the Civil War. She went to Rome in 1867. Among her works are "The Death of Cleopatra" (1876), "The Old Arrow-maker and his Daughters," "The Marriage of Hiawatha," etc. Lewis, Mrs. (Estelle Anna Robinson). Born near Baltimore about 1824: died at London, Nov. 24, 1880. An American poet and miscellaneous writer. Among her works is the tragedy "Sappho of Lesbos" (1868), which was translated into Greek and played at Athens. Lewis, Francis. Born at Llandaff, Wales, March, 1713: died at New York, Dec. 19, 1803. An American patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence as member of Congre from New York. Lewis, Frederick Christian. Born at London, March 14, 1779: died at Enfield, Dec. 18, 1856. An English engraver and landscape-painter. He engraved works of Raphael, Michelangelo, Claude, Pou in, Flaxman, Turner, Landseer, etc. Lewis, Sir George Corne April 21, 1806: died at Harpton Court, Radnor-