Sullivan County PA Archives Biographies.....LEWIS, Benjamin 1842 - 
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  BENJAMIN LEWIS, deceased, whose portrait is shown on the opposite page, was a
  prominent farmer of Hillsgrove township, Sullivan County, Pa., and resided on a
  fine farm of one hundred and eighty-four acres on the Loyalsock Creek, three
  miles from the village of Hillsgrove. He was a son of George and Sarah Lewis,
  and was born in Wetherby, England, September 22, 1842.
  
    Mr. Lewis was the youngest son in a family of fourteen children and was reared
  and educated in England. At the age of twenty-two years he came to America,
  obtaining employment as a farmhand on the farm of Jonathan Lewis of Hillsgrove,
  Sullivan County, Pa. It was while serving in that capacity that he met Anna
  Lewis, a daughter of his employer, whom he subsequently married. They located on
  her fathers farm, which is still In possession of Mrs. Lewis, and there he
  followed farming during the remainder of his life, becoming one of the most
  progressive and substantial citizens of the community. There he built a new
  house, a modern home in every particular, and also greatly improved the land. In
  private life he was greatly esteemed by his fellow citizens and had a large
  circle of friends. He was called to his final rest October 21, 1891.
  
    His union with Anna Lewis resulted in the birth of seven children, as follows:
  Albert Leslie, a stonemason of Towanda, Bradford County, who married Minnie
  Jennings by whom he has one son; Robert; Emma Lilian; Maud Antoinette; Sarah
  Eveline, whose union with James Grady of Binghamton, N. Y., has been blessed
  with two children, Anna May and Amy Helena, Mr. and Mrs. Grady reside in Jamison
  City, Columbia County, Pa.; Hattie May; Daisy Elizabeth, who died at the age of
  three months; and a son who also died in infancy. Politically Mr. Lewis was a
  stanch Republican. In religious attachments he was a member of the Methodist
  Church.
  
    Jonathan Lewis, the father of our subject's widow, was born at Sickling Hall,
  Wetherby, Eng., and came to the United States in his early manhood. After a few
  years' residence in this country he went back to England, and, upon returning to
  this country subsequently, settled near Hillsgrove, Sullivan County, Pa., where
  he passed the remainder of his days in agricultural pursuits and where many of
  his descendants are now located. Jonathan Lewis was united in marriage to
  Elizabeth Fawcett. Mrs. Lewis the widow of our subject, still lives on the farm
  formerly owned by Mr. Lewis, and is surrounded by many friends who love her for
  her many estimable traits of character.
  
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  Extracted from:
    
    Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
    Published by 
    Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
  
  
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