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Below is a family biography included in The History of Cherokee County, Kansas included within the History of Kansas by William G. Cutler, published by A. T. Andreas, 1883. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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JOHN LEWIS, Superintendent of the Galena Lead and Zinc Company, is a native of Maine, where he was born August 29, 1829. At the age of fifteen, he went to South America prospecting, and at the age of nineteen, began mining in the copper mines of Cuba, where he worked thirteen years. He then returned to the United States and was engaged in prospecting and speculating, and in the army until 1864, when he came to Missouri and remained in general business until 1870. He then came to Baxter Springs, where he engaged in lead and zinc mining and smelting, and was one of the organizers of the town of Joplin. He shipped the first car-load of lumber to Baxter Springs, and raised the first pound of lead ore ever raised in Cherokee County, one and a half miles from Galena. In 1876-77, he was Superintendent of the famous mines in Jasper County, Mo., and had supervision of the construction of the furnaces for the Galena Lead and Zinc, and the South Side Mining and Manufacturing Company. Mr. Lewis is still Superintendent of the Galena Lead and Zinc Mining Company. He was married to Miss Mary A. Mikels, of Montrose, Penn., in 1862.
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