Northumberland-Lancaster County PA Archives Biographies.....Dewart, Lewis 1849 - living in 1899 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com July 7, 2005, 8:00 pm Author: Biographical Publishing Co. LEWIS DEWART, a leading member of the Northumberland County Bar, was born in Sunbury May 6, 1849. He received all the education that the common schools offered and then took a preparatory course at Columbia, Pa., and at Edge Hill. After this he entered Princeton College and was graduated in the class of 1872. Choosing the legal profession as his life work, he entered the law office of Judge Jordan, with whom he read law until he was admitted to the bar in 1874. The standing which the young attorney quickly acquired may be appreciated by the fact that in the following year he was made borough clerk and in 1877 was elected to the responsible position of district attorney of Northumberland County. He has since been engaged in active practice in Sunbury, and, having received a thorough preparation and having mental abilities and a natural bent of the kind most useful to a successful lawyer, our subject has attained both prosperity and influence. Shrewd, alert, and farseeing, he is an advocate in whom men trust and an antagonist whom they combat with caution. He is a gentleman of wide range of experience, and in the financial field, in which he is an important factor, he brings to bear the same thorough and methodical ways which stand him in such good stead in his profession. Politically Mr. Dewart is an influential Democrat. He has been a delegate to county, district, state and national conventions, having been a delegate to the convention that nominated Grover Cleveland for the presidency in 1892. Socially he is a member of Sunbury Lodge, No. 22, F. & A. M. Mr. Dewart is one of the representative men of Sunbury and takes an important part in the general councils of the best citizens in matters pertaining to the welfare of the community and the general prosperity of the town. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899) This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb