BIO: Charles L. Lewis, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY

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Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, pages 359-360.
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  Lewis, Charles Luman, was born on October 27, 1872, in the village of 
Camptown, Pa. On his paternal side his ancestors were of English 
extraction, coming to this country early in the eighteenth century and 
settling in Connecticut. Immediately after the revolutionary war, 
having served under Washington, the Lewises removed to Bradford County, 
Pa. On his maternal side he is the grandson of Almon Fuller, Esq., who 
came from Vermont, and settled in Susquehanna County, but afterward 
removed to Herrick township, in Bradford County.
  After finishing his common school work at Camptown, he went to the 
Wyalusing High School one year, and then entered Wyoming Seminary, 
taking the commercial course, and also special work in telegraphy. He 
then worked two years for the Lehigh Valley Railroad, working 
principally at Sayre and Coxton. In the fall of 1895 he was converted, 
and with conversion came the call to preach, which he could not resist. 
Within two weeks he entered the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute at 
Towanda, Pa. completing the classical course in two years. He next 
entered Drew Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1900 with 
the degree of B.D. During his senior year at Drew he took special work 
in literature and sociology in the graduate school of New York 
University.
  On May 7, 1901, he married Mrs. Hattie Stanton Howard, of Windham, 
Pa.