Sevier County UT Archives Biographies.....Lewis, Archibald James 1856 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

ARCHIBALD JAMES LEWIS.

    The spirit of modern-day business enterprise and progressiveness finds
expression in the record of Archibald James Lewis, who is at the head of the
Lewis Drug Company of Salina, is the president of the Salina Telephone Company,
and has been identified with other important corporations which figure
prominently in connection with the business development of the northern part of
Sevier county.

    Mr. Lewis was born in Wisconsin in May, 1856, a son of Alden P. and Margaret
(Brander) Lewis. The father was a prosperous merchant of Wisconsin who at the
time of the Civil war, however, put aside all business and personal
considerations and responded to the call for aid in the preservation of the
Union. When his son Archie was a lad of but three years the father removed with
the family to Hardin county, Iowa, and after being educated in the schools of
Alden he secured a position as drug clerk. In 1882 he was registered as a
licensed pharmacist and accepted the management of the Red Oak Pharmacy at Red
Oak, Iowa. There he remained until 1886, when he accepted a position with the
Blake & Bruce Company, wholesale druggists of Omaha, Nebraska, with whom he
remained for a year, after which he returned to Red Oak to become manager of the
Ross Drug Store. A year later that business was removed to Salt Lake City and
Mr. Lewis came to Utah to continue in the position of manager. In 1890, when the
store was sold, he accepted the management of the Sharp & Younger Drug Company
in Salt Lake City and in 1895 he became sales manager of the Shores & Shores
Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of proprietary medicines, traveling all
over the country in the interests of that firm through the succeeding four
years. Later he took up the business of manufacturing proprietary medicines on
his own account in association with W. L. Ellison in Butte, Montana. In the
course of his travels on the road as a salesman he visited Salina and, being
greatly impressed with the city and its future outlook, he decided to locate
within its borders.

    Closing out his Butte holdings, Mr. Lewis removed to Salina in 1902 and
purchased the Salina Drug Store but soon afterward changed the name of the
business to the Lewis Drug Company. He purchased a lot whereon he erected the
store building that he now occupies. His stock embraces a complete line of drugs
and chemicals and in addition he handles all of the goods put upon the market
under the names of the A. D. S., the Rexall and the Nyall. He makes a specialty
of the compounding of prescriptions and in the conduct of the drug store has
developed a business of large and gratifying proportions. He has not confined
his attention, however, entirely to the conduct of the drug business, for he has
become an active figure in other connections and is now the president of the
Salina Telephone Company, which covers all of the northern section of Sevier
county and has connection with the Mountain States Telephone Company, which is
the Bell System, and the government line to Fish Lake and Loa on the south. Into
financial circles he has directed his energies and has been the president of the
First State Bank of Salina. He is likewise half owner of the famous Monroe Hot
Springs at Monroe and from 1912 until 1919 he conducted a business under the
name of the Lewis Auto Company, distributors of the Ford cars and later of the
Dodge and Hudson cars. He shipped the first carload of automobiles into southern
Utah, bringing sixteen Fords. This was deemed a very unwise business venture,
but within three weeks he had disposed of all of the cars and for a number of
years he remained an active factor in the automobile trade but found that other
interests were claiming more of his time and attention. He finds enjoyment in
the management of his extensive farm, which is pleasantly and conveniently
situated five miles northwest of Delta and is devoted to the raising of grain.

    In 1905 Mr. Lewis was married to Miss Merle Peterson, a daughter of Lehi and
Carolyn Peterson, of Salina, and they are now parents of a son, Thad Whittier,
who was born in 1909 and is being educated in the Lafayette school of Salt Lake
City. That Mr. Lewis is a most progressive man and keenly interested in the
welfare of his adopted city is indicated in the fact that he was for many years
secretary of the Commercial Club. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and member
of the Mystic Shrine and he also belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of
Elks. He has served as a member of the city council of Salina but has never been
a politician in the sense of office seeking. His has been an extremely busy and
useful career, yet at all times he is found as a most genial and jovial
companion, greeting everyone with a pleasant word and cheery smile. The
interests and activities of his life are well balanced, making him a typical
citizen of the west-a man who accomplishes his purposes, who formulates his
plans readily and is determined in their execution. His activities have ever
been of a character that have contributed not only to individual success but to
public prosperity and upbuilding as well.


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UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME IV
CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1920


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