My Genealogy Hound

GEORGE W. LEWIS, farmer and stock-raiser, section 36, post-office Carthage, a native of the Empire State, born in Onondaga county, N. Y., Nov. 26, 1834. Received a good common school education and a finishing course at the Pompey Hill Academy. His father was a farmer and after completing his academic course our subject returned to the farm for one year, then took a course of commercial studies and fancy penmanship under Prof. H. A. Warner, of Binghamton, N. Y. Then taught school six terms in different places. Became a resident of Jasper county, Mo., in the spring of 1867; settled upon a tract of land previously purchased by his father, Hartland Lewis, who died here June 5, 1882, in the seventy-first year of his age. He was born in Onondaga county, New York, August 19, 1811. His father was one of the pioneers of central New York, and for many years after their settlement the country was little more than a wild wilderness. Our subject now owns a fine farm nicely situated one mile west of Avilla. Mr. Lewis was married at Skaneateles, N. Y., June 6, 1857, to Miss Harriet Wheeler, also a native of Onondaga county, N. Y., born March 18, 1836, and educated at the Monroe Institute, Elbridge, New York. They are the parents of one daughter, Sarah L., wife of Isaac Koontz; and one son, William H., who, by the way, is somewhat of a hunter. Has killed five deer near Spring River the past hunting season.