BIOGRAPHY: Henry C. LEWIS, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, page 493.

  HENRY C. LEWIS, Lewistown, Mifflin county, Pa., was born at Pottsville, Pa., 
April 19, 1834, son of Nathan H. and Hannah (Mendenhall) Lewis, of Chadds Ford, 
Pa.  Nathan H. Lewis was born October 10, 1804, and died February 17, 1843;  his 
wife survived until February 2, 1891.  Their children were:  Caleb, born 
September 3, 1828, married Susan Burnett;  Lydian, born February 24, 1830, 
married Dr. John S. Phillips, of Kennett Square, Pa.;  Edwin, born December 17, 
1831, died November 17, 1838;  Henry Clay;  William H., born June 14, 1840, died 
January 8, 1843;  and Samuel A., born March 26, 1843, went down off Cape 
Hatteras December 31, 1863, on the iron-clad Monitor, on which he was third 
assistant engineer.  Nathan H. Lewis, having removed to West Chester, Pa., built 
the first iron foundry there, and conducted it until his death in 1843.  Henry 
C. Lewis attended the schools of the borough until his mother, when left a 
widow, removed to the vicinity of Chadds Ford, and two years later to that of 
Concordville, Delaware county.  In both places he continued to be a pupil in the 
common schools.  He afterwards resided for a short time with his cousin, Evan G. 
Phillips, in Newcastle county, Del., after which he found employment in 
Philadelphia for one year in the drug store of Paul G. Oliver, and then in the 
hardware store of Longstreth & Buzby, on Market Street.  He next entered the 
shop of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Mifflintown, Pa., to learn the 
business of a machinist, and remained there about six years.  In 1857 he was 
employed by the Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad Company as fireman and 
machinist, between Allegheny and Alliance, O.;  then by the Northern Central 
Railroad Company as machinist and locomotive engineer, at Baltimore, being 
promoted some time later to the position of foreman of the machine shop.  After 
five years, he left the Northern Central for the Western Maryland Railroad.  He 
was subsequently employed by the Summit Branch Railroad Company as master 
mechanic in Lykens valley;  by the Pennsylvania and Ohio Anthracite Coal and 
Transportation Company as superintendent at Losh's Run Station for about 
eighteen months, and by the same company at Lewistown Junction until the autumn 
of 1890.  At the last-named place he was superintendent for Boyd, Stickney & 
Company.  Mr. Lewis is neutral in politics.
  Henry Clay Lewis was married in September, 1858, to Abigail J., daughter of 
George and Nancy Losh.  Their children are:  Hannah Mary, died when about two 
years old;  and Lilly J.  Mr. Lewis and his family attend the Presbyterian 
church.