Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Lewis, Murphey 1829 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Murphy Lewis, county recorder, Covington, was born in Orange county, North
Carolina, April 27, 1829, and is the son of John and Cynthia (Baldwin) Lewis,
whose ancestry for several generations were natives of the New England states,
but were, at the date of the birth of our subject, residents of Orange county,
North Carolina. Mr. Lewis lived in Orange county until he was eighteen years
old, acquiring a fair education, which he completed in the schools of Fountain
and Parke counties. He and his father came north in 1847 and settled in Fountain
county, his mother having died previously. The family settled in Mill Creek
township. After engaging in agricultural pursuits on his own account, Mr. Lewis
removed to Fulton, where he still owns a farm. Mr. Lewis followed farming in the
summer and teaching school during the fall and winter months. In 1862 he
enlisted in the Federal army and served three years. He entered as a private in
Co. H, 63d reg. Ind. Vol. Inf. Capt. Conover and Col. Jas. McMannomy were his
officers. He never received a commission, but at the expiration of his term of
service he ranked an orderly-sergeant. His was not a term of service of the kind
to add to one's idea of "the glory of war," but three long years of hard
fighting and tedious marching. He was in many of the hard-fought battles not
included in the memorable Atlanta campaign in which his company and regiment
took part. Returning from the service he resumed his farming, but being a
thinking, reading man he was outspoken in his political views, which were, and
are, republican, and as a consequence the republican party, in October 1878,
elected him recorder of Fountain county by a majority of 315 votes. This
election was for a four years' term, so that at present he is in the midst of
the discharge of his duties. In 1853 Mr. Lewis, was married to Miss Maria Myers,
who is a native of Ross county, Ohio, though a resident of Fountain county at
the time of marriage. They have a family of nine boys.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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