Biography of Charles Lewis, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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The Forrest City Times' Art Souvenir-1905-Page 111: The junior member of the
firm of Becker & Lewis, is a native of Memphis, Tennessee, where he was born on
January 4, 1862, being the second son of Benjamin and Sarah Lewis. He was
educated in the schools of that city, and began what has proven to be a very
successufl buiness career, by buying hides and furs. Mr. Charles Lewis came to
Forrest City with his parents in 1876. Besides his mercantile business, farming
and city real estate interests, he is a shareholder and director in The Bank of
Eastern Arkansas, Forrest City Ice & Power Co., Forrest City Gin Co., and is
connected with several trust companies located at New York, St. Louis, Memphis,
Little Rock and Helena. He owns a very comfortable home in Forrest City where he
lives happily with his mother who is 74 years of age and one of the best known
figures in Forrest City. He is one of the proprietors of the Opera House which
bears his firm name.

Copyright With Permission: 1905 Art Souvenir-Forrest City Times NewspaperWeston
McCollum Lewey, Publisher-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas