Biographical Sketch of Lawrence H. Lewis, Crawford County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Lawrence H. Lewis, blacksmith and wagon-maker, and also proprietor of
Lewis Opera House, Cuba, MO., was born in Oswego County, N. Y., in 
1844.  In the family of his parents, George W. and Sarah (Bassett)
Lewis, were eleven children, of whom he was the tenth.  Lawrence H.
received a good education, and when a young man aspired to be an 
attorney-at-law; he attended the Ohio State Law College of Cleveland,
Ohio, three years, and received a diploma as Bachelor of Laws from
that institution in 1868.  He was admitted to the bar and also the
United States Courts in the same year, but practiced the legal pro-
fession but about two years, when ill health compelled him to seek 
other employment.  He then immigrated to the West, and in 1871 he
located in Crawford County, MO., where he has been engaged in various
pursuits; he first ran a sawmill, and in 1872 bought a town lot in
Cuba, upon which he built and established his present shop in 1876.
He keeps competent workmen both in the wagon-making department and 
the blacksmith shop, employing from eight to ten hands.  In 1882 he 
erected the hall, or opera house, in Cuba, and has now another brick
structure in process of erection for the same purpose.  In 1874, Mr.
Lewis married Elizabeth, daughter of Walter and Frances (Sutherland)
Evans.  They have had eight children, five of whom are living, viz.:
Cora E., Clarence E., Laura P., Lawrence H., Jr. and an infant.
Politically, Mr. Lewis is a stanch Republican, and cast his first
presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln.  He is a member of the A.O.U.W.

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