Polk County, Missouri Biographies - H. LEWIS
History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri; 1889, published by Goodspeed, Pg. 670
Polk County Biographies Section

    H. Lewis, one of the leading druggists of Bolivar, Mo., is
a native of Trumbull County, Ohio, born October 8, 1846.  His
scholastic training was received at the Western Reserve Seminary,
West Farmington, Ohio, but failing health caused him to abandon
his books at the age of fifteen, and he then began clerking in a
store, where he remained for about nine years.  In 1870 he started
to go to California, but stopped in Bolivar, Mo., to see a friend,
and, after remaining there a short time, bought a stock of boots
and shoes, soon becoming associated with J. T. Odor in a drug 
store.  This partnership did not last very long, and Mr. Lewis,
not long afterward, became sole proprietor.  In 1874 he returned
to Ohio, and was there married to Miss Jennie S. Dunkerton, also
a native of Trumbull County, Ohio.  To this union were born two
children, both now deceased.  Mr. Lewis also had the misfortune
to lose his wife March 8, 1887.  She was a member of the 
Presbyterian Church.  Mr. Lewis is a Knight Templar in the 
Masonic order, a member of the A. O. U. W., and also a member
of the Jeweler's' League.  He has followed continuously one line
of business longer than any other man in Bolivar, and enjoys a
successful and a strictly honorable drug patronage.  In his 
political views he is a Republican.
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