Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Lewis, U. R. S. 1822 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

U. R. S. LEWIS. The growth of a community is the result of individual industry,
energy and uprightness, for any section of country is only the aggregate of
individual conditions. When, therefore, we contemplate the life of an upright
man, we realize that his influence is far-reaching and is not bounded by
imaginary lines separating counties or States. It is with pleasure that we
invite the reader's attention to the following record of the life of Mr. Lewis,
and also to his portrait which is presented on the opposite page. For almost
thirty years he has resided in Tuscola County, with the progress of which he has
been identified, and with the development of which he has always been closely
connected.

  The father of our subject, Benjamin S. Lewis by name, was a native of Rhode
Island, where he was reared to man's estate. In his early manhood he removed to
New York, where he was married to Miss Betsey Whiting, a native of Vermont. This
worthy couple became the parents of four sons and three daughters, of whom six
are now living —two daughters and one son in Huron County, Ohio, and three in
Michigan. In an early day the parents removed from New York to Ohio, where they
located first in Trumbull County, but finally moved to Huron County. The father
engaged in farming pursuits and during all his active career, and died in Huron
County, Ohio, at the age of eighty-two years.

  The subject of this biographical notice was born September 17, 1822, in
Auburn, N. Y., and passed his youth in his native place. Until he was of age he
remained at home, learning the trade of a mason, and also working upon his
father's farm. When ready to establish a home of his own, he was married in
1846, in Trumbull County, Ohio, to Miss Olive M. Bartlett, and with his bride
settled in Trumbull County, where in partnership with his father he owned a
farm. To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis have been born nine children, there being five sons
and four daughters. Of these four are now living, viz.: Mary L., Jessie M.,
Freeborn, a physician, who resides in Washington; and William T., the station
agent at Mayville.

  In 1862 Mr. Lewis came to Tuscola County and settled on the farm of
seventy-six acres on section 6, Vassar Township, which he still owns. One-half
of this he has cleared and greatly improved, and has moreover erected a neat
residence and other buildings upon the place, which add greatly to its value. He
here devotes himself to general farming, and having been familiar with
agricultural pursuits from youth, it is not strange that he has become a
practical, successful farmer, familiar with the best methods of improving and
cultivating the land. Although coming here not so many years ago, he was in fact
a pioneer, and has done much of the work familiar to early settlers of the
State. In political affairs he has been a Republican since the outset of his
career, but has never been an aspirant for office, preferring to leave that to
others who can afford to give it more time and careful attention than it would
be in his power to devote to it. By hard labor and applied judgment he has
earned the comfortable competency which he now enjoys, and his indefatigable
labors have contributed to render him among the most prosperous farmers of
Vassar Township.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892



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