St Johns County FlArchives Biographies.....Lew, Jack A. June 6, 1878 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.94  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        JACK A. LEW. During a period of a quarter of a century JACK A. LEW has 
risen from the proprietor of a small merchandise establishment to become the 
owner of one of the largest department stores of St. Augustine and one of the 
city’s heaviest property holders. His career has been one of constant a
advancement, in which industry, wise investment, acceptance of opportunity and
good management have been combined with natural ability.
	Mr. Lew was born at Vineland, New Jersey, June 6, 1878, a son of Rabbi 
WOLF and ANNIE (KAPLAN) LEW, natives of Russian Poland. His father, a Jewish 
Rabbi, owned a small farm at Vineland, New Jersey, where he died in 1921, at 
the age of seventy-four years, while the mother still survives. There were 
eight children in the family, Jack A. being the sixth in the order of birth, 
and three children now survive. The public schools of Vineland furnished JACK 
A. LEW with his educational training, and as a youth he busied himself in 
assisting his father in the cultivation of the home farm. The commercial 
instinct in him was strong, however, and when he was seventeen years of age he 
embarked upon a business career, traveling from place to place with a small 
stock of goods. Having accumulated a little capital and much experience during 
his two years of traveling, he settled down at St. Augustine, where he invested 
his means in a line of general merchandise. His initial venture was a modest 
one, but it had behind it the energy and untiring industry of a man who had 
supreme faith in himself and who made each step a forward one. It grew year-by-year,
enlarging its scope and taking in more and more territory, until today, as before
noted, it is one of the largest stores of its kind at St. Augustine.
	Mr. Lew during his business career has displayed his faith in St. Augustine by
investing heavily in real estate. In addition to ten residences, he is the owner of
the St. Augustine National Bank Building and the building which is the home of St.
Augustine Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Early in May, 1922,
he became the owner of one of the most valuable buildings in the city, when he
purchased from the Model Land Company the year, 
enlarging its scope and taking in more and more territory, until today,
as before noted, it is one of the largest stores of its kind at St. Augustine.
	Mr. Lew during his business career has displayed his faith in St. 
Augustine by investing heavily in real estate. In addition to ten residences, 
he is the owner of the St. Augustine National Bank Building and the building 
which is the home of St. Augustine Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order 
of Elks. Early in May, 1922, he became the owner of one of the most valuable 
buildings in the city, when he purchased from the Model Land Company the Vaill 
Block. This block had been offered to the City of St. Augustine for the sum of 
$65,000, in July, 1921, but a vote upon the purchase by the city was lost. Just 
previous to that time, at a “booster meeting” of the Board of Trade, of which
Mr. Lew is vice president, he had stated that if the city did not purchase the
building he would, and his promise was made good. The building is located at
the corner of Charlotte Street and Cathedral Place, and is occupied by a number
of important concerns. Mr. Lew is now making a number of important
improvements, which will make the property one of the most modern in the city.
Mr. Lew is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men, the Loyal Order of Moose
and the Elks, and in politics is a democrat.
	On October 2, 1907, Mr. Lew married Miss ANNA ZIMEDBAUM, who was born
at New York City.


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