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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

LAWRENCE LEWIS.

    Lawrence Lewis, attorney at law, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, June 22,
1879, a son of Thomas Addison and Melissa Ann (Lewis) Lewis. The father was born
June 19, 1840, near Maysville, Kentucky, and passed away at Hollywood, near Los
Angeles, California, February 9, 1916. The mother was born in Logansport,
Indiana, April 19, 1842.

    Lawrence Lewis entered public school at Evanston, Illinois, and later
attended a private school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In May, 1890, he came
with his parents to Pueblo, Colorado, where he attended the public high school.
In September, 1897, he matriculated in the University of Colorado at Boulder,
where he remained a student until May, 1899. In the following September he
became a student in Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was graduated
in June, 1901, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Immediately after his
graduation from Harvard College in June, 1901, he returned to his home in
Pueblo, Colorado, and engaged in daily newspaper work as local correspondent for
the Rocky Mountain News of Denver in association with his brother, Hume Lewis.
Beginning on November 1, 1901, he was employed by The Colorado Fuel & Iron
Company to establish, edit and manage an illustrated weekly magazine, called
"Camp and Plant," for the fifteen thousand employes and for others interested in
the operations of what was then the largest industrial corporation west of St.
Louis. In June, 1904, he left the employ of The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company in
order to look after personal business, which occupied his time until October,
1906. During that period he assisted his brother, Hume Lewis, for a time in
editing the Pueblo Star-Journal, an evening daily, and also wrote for various
eastern newspapers and magazines. In October, 1906, he entered the Harvard Law
School at Cambridge, Massachusetts, from which he was graduated in June, 1909,
with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. While in the law school he wrote a number
of special articles for the Boston Transcript and for various magazines and also
wrote a small book. He was assistant instructor in English in Harvard College
from October, 1906, to February, 1907, and from September, 1907, until June,
1909. Besides the small book which he wrote, called "The Advertisements of the
Spectator," published by Houghton, Mifflin & Company of Boston and by Constable
& Company of London in 1909, and besides various "special stories," nearly all
on political and industrial conditions in Colorado, which appeared in the Boston
Transcript and other eastern newspapers, Mr. Lewis wrote, prior to his admission
to the bar of Colorado in August, 1909, from one to eight articles for each of
the following periodicals: The Outlook, Harper's Weekly, The World's Work, The
Travel Magazine, Country Life in America, The Scientific American, The
Engineering and Mining Journal and the Atlantic Monthly. Upon his admission to
the bar of Colorado, August 9, 1909, he removed to Denver and began the practice
of his profession in association with Hon. Edward C. Stimson and on March 15,
1913, opened an office independently in the Equitable building in Denver, where
he has since been located and is now engaged in general law practice.

    Mr. Lewis was made a member of the civil service commission of Colorado,
February 3, 1917. He is an associate member of the legal advisory board, Local
Board No. 2, of Denver, under the selective service law, and is also a member of
the legal advisory board for the district exemption and appeal board for
District No. 2, of Colorado. He is a member of the speakers' bureau of the state
council of defense and since January, 1918, has been acting as legal adviser in
the judge advocate's department of the Colorado National Guard. Politically he
is a democrat and he was one of the first in Denver to advocate the nomination
of Woodrow Wilson for president and has always been one of his loyal supporters.
In 1912 he was one of the incorporators of the Rocky Mountain Wilson Club. He
has always been interested in politics but has never been a candidate for office
before the people. Fraternally he is connected with South Pueblo Lodge. No. 31,
A. F. & A. M., and he also belongs to the Colorado Chi chapter of Sigma Alpha
Epsilon at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a member of the
University Club of Denver and was formerly secretary-treasurer for two terms of
the Rocky Mountain Harvard Club and was president of that club for two terms,
beginning in 1916. He is also a member of the American Bar Association, the
Colorado Bar Association and the Denver Bar Association. His religious faith is
that of the Protestant Episcopal church. In August, 1918, he was accepted "for
admission to the Field Artillery Central Officers' Training School, Camp Zachary
Taylor, Kentucky, and enlisted for the period of the war.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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