BIOGRAPHIES:  Andrew P. LEWIS, Oak Grove Township, Barron Co., WI

***********************************************************************
USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE:  These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in
any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or
persons.  Persons or organizations desiring to use this material,
must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal
representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb
archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission
to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access.

Submitted by:  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  24 February 2004
***********************************************************************

Andrew P. Lewis, a progressive farmer of Sections 5 and 8, Oak Grove
Township, has built up a good place which is as sightly as any to be found
in the neighborhood. He came here in 1908, and bought 190 acres, of which
he has cleared 50 acres, leaving the remainder in timber and pasturage. He
has erected a pleasant ten-room bungalow, a good barn, 36 by 92 feet, with
the West Bend equipment, and other farm buildings. His machinery is of the
best. He successfully carries on general farming and dairying and has a
fine herd of mixed Holstein cattle, headed by a full blooded sire. He is
rearing a family of children, and is doing his duty as a good citizen in
every respect. Mr. Lewis was born in Upshur County, West Virginia, Feb. 3,
1877, son of Granville and Barbara (Halder) Lewis, natives respectively of
West Virginia and Switzerland, who came to Wisconsin, and settled in Green
County, Wis., where they are well known and substantial farming people. In
the family there are nine children: Bertha (deceased), Samantha (deceased),
Carrie (deceased), Edna (deceased), Sophia, William, Jacob, Edward and
Andrew P. Andrew P. received his education in the district schools of Green
County, this state, to which he was brought as a child. He worked with his
father until 1900, when he rented a farm in that county for eight years,
after which he came to Barron County. He was married Nov. 29, 1899, to
Grace Zimmerman, who was born in Green County, Wis., Aug. 18, 1881, to Gale
and Zilfa (Allen) Zimmerman, natives respectively of Pennsylvania and
Wisconsin, who now live on a farm in Washburn County, this state. In the
Zimmerman family there were five children: Mortimer (deceased), Bessie,
Peter, Gaylord and Grace. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis have had eleven children:
Wayne R., born Oct. 19, 1900; Mortimer P., July 21, 1902; Pearl P., May 26,
1904; Myron A., Feb. 19, 1906 (died Nov. 17, 1908); Mildred M., Jan. 13,
1908; Florence E., Feb. 27, 1910; Kenneth E., Jan. 18, 1913; Arthur A., May
8, 1914 (drowned in Devil's Lake, June 28, 1916); Robert F., March 29,
1916; Von A., Sept. 13, 1917, and Allen L., Feb. 21, 1920. The family home
is a hospitable one, and the doors are always open to the friends of the
family.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 338-339.


© All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm