BIO: Lewis H. GAUSE, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 246.
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  GAUSE, LEWIS H., son of Samuel Gause (1781-1865) and Mary Bailey 
(1784-1868), was born October 28, 1821, at Unionville, Chester county, 
Pa.  He was educated in the country schools of Delaware and Chester 
county, and at West Town boarding-school.  After having taught school, 
a good many years, he graduated in 1861 from the State Normal School of 
New Jersey, located at Trenton.  In early life he commenced teaching; 
came to Harrisburg in 1843 as teacher in the boys' high school of the 
South ward, where he continued until 1851, when he became teacher of 
the sciences in the agricultural school at Mount Airy, conducted by 
Prof. John Wilkinson, for one year.  From December, 1852, to the spring 
of 1855 he taught at Treemount Seminary, Norristown, when he took 
charge of the Olive Branch, which he edited two years.  In 1857 he went 
to Springfield, Ohio, to engage in a newspaper venture, but purchasing 
a farm, followed farming two years, teaching during the winter.  In 
1859 he returned East, took charge of one of the public schools at 
Plainfield, N. J., subsequently entering the State Normal School as 
stated.  During the Rebellion he entered the United States service, 
serving until the close of the war, and was made clerk to Maj. E. L. 
Moore, paymaster in the United States army.  In October, 1865, he 
resigned, and established a select school at Harrisburg, which he 
successfully conducted ten years.  In 1875 was elected by the school 
board of the city of Harrisburg supervisory principal of the Reily 
street schools.  Mr. Gause studied law while conducting the Harrisburg 
Institute, under John C. Kunkle, and was admitted to the Dauphin county 
bar December, 1868.  He married, October 28, 1847, Sarah Fish Moore, 
daughter of Levi Moore and Sarah Fish, of Amherst, Mass., and their 
children were Leander M., Charles S., Helen, Frank L., Lucy G., and 
Laura B.