BIO: C. E. LEWIS, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, historical editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Borough, Pg 30

C. E. LEWIS is a descendant of Ellis Lewis, who, with John Rankin and James 
Bennett, removed from Chester County, about 1736, and settled in the region of 
York County, where afterward his son, Eli Lewis, laid out the town of 
Lewisberry.  Dr. Webster Lewis was grandfather of C. E. Lewis.  Ellis Lewis, 
chief justice of Pennsylvania, James Lewis, attorney at law at York, and Eli 
Lewis, president of the First National Bank of York, were sons of Eli.  Dr. 
Robert Nebinger Lewis, who practiced medicine in Dover for many years, and Mary 
Moore, were our subject's father and mother.  C. E. Lewis was born in Dover, 
April 5, 1844.  He attended the common schools until seventeen years of age, 
when he entered the York County Academy, then under Prof. G. W. Ruby, as 
principal, and D. M. Ettinger, the accomplished mathematician and surveyor, as 
teacher in arithmetic, algebra, geometry and other branches related thereto, and 
attended its sessions three years, and afterward for a short period was its 
assistant principal.  With his brother, Rush Webster Lewis, C. E. Lewis started 
in York the manufacture of shoes by machinery, and this was the first business 
in which he was engaged.  Previous to this, however, he had spent a year and a 
quarter in the city of Lynn, Mass., and Amesbury, Mass., where he was for some 
time engaged as foreman in the finishing room of the Salisbury and Amesbury 
mills.  Subsequently he became book-keeper for James N. Buffum's lumber 
manufacturing establishment, at Lynn, Mass.  He returned to York in June, 1866, 
and July following was elected a clerk in the First National Bank at York, and 
continued in the bank until January 1, 1871, having gained the position of 
teller in the meantime.  It was at this time he left the bank to engage in the 
manufacture of shoes, in which business he was engaged eight years.  In January, 
1879, he was elected as cashier of the Western National Bank of York, where he 
is now engaged.  April 26, 1869, he married Ellen Sarah, the second daughter of 
Joseph Smyser, of the borough of York, Penn., and has had born to him the 
following children:  Ellis Smyser, member of St. Paul's Church, and clerk in the 
Western National Bank; Joseph Smyser, Mabel Rebecca, Sadie Moore, Clay Eugene, 
Nellie Kate, and Margie Violet, all living.