John Randolph Lewis

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Husband John Randolph Lewis ^{1 2}

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           Born: 22 Sep 1834 - Erie Co, PA 2
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         Father: Jesse Lewis (      -      ) 3 4
         Mother: Sarah Campbell (1807-      ) 3 4

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General Notes: Husband - John Randolph Lewis

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After attending preparatory schools, he took the regular course of study at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery and the medical department of the University of Vermont, after which he engaged in the practice of dental surgery. Having enlisted, April 20, 1861, he served during the three-months' term as sergeant of Co. H, 1st Vt. I., taking part in the battle of Big Bethel and other engagements of that campaign, and being discharged August 15, 1861. He re-entered the army September 16, 1861, as captain of Co. I, 5th Vt. I. On July 16, 1862, he was promoted to major, and to lieutenant-colonel October 5, following. He served in all the campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, being wounded at White Oak Swamp, until May 5, 1864, when he lost his left arm at the shoulder joint from a gun-shot wound at the battle of the Wilderness. Having been promoted to the colonelcy of his regiment, June 5, 1864, it was found that his wound unfitted him for active service, and he was mustered out September 11, 1864. Having been commissioned colonel of the 1st Reg., Vt. Res. Corps, September 8, Lewis accepted, September 12, the day after his discharge from the 5th Vermont. He served on the board for the examination of officers for transfer to the Vt. Res. Corps until December 26, 1864, and then on the board for the examination of enlisted men in hospitals for transfer to the same corps until June, 1865. Having been a brevet brigadier-general of volunteers, March 13, 1865, he commanded the post in Elmira, New York, from June till October, awaited orders at Buffalo till December, and was then on duty at Nashville as inspector-general of the staff of Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, and assistant commissioner B. R. F. and A. L. at Nashville until January, 1867. Having been commissioned major of the 44th U. S. Inf., January 22, 1867, Gen. Lewis accepted the place and was mustered out of the volunteer service March 31, and into the United States Army April 1, 1867. Then he served on the staff of Gen. C. C. Sibley at Savannah, Macon and Atlanta till 1869; unassigned March 15, 1869; assistant commissioner B. R. F. and A. L., Atlanta, Ga., to April 28, 1870; brevet lieutenant-colonel and brevet colonel, U. S. A., March 2, 1867; retired, with the rank of colonel, U. S. A., April 28, 1870, after a total active service of eight years and eleven months. After leaving the army his occupations were as follows: State school commissioner of Georgia, 1870 to 1872, during which time he organized the public school system of the State; mercantile business at Des Moines, Iowa, 1873 to 1876; resident of Buffalo, New York, 1876 to 1880; secretary Atlanta Cotton Expositions, 1880 to 1881; mercantile business at Atlanta beginning in 1883; postmaster of Atlanta from August 1, 1889, to December 1, 1893; secretary Cotton States and International Exposition from April 1, 1894, to December 31, 1895. Gen. Lewis was a charter member of the O. M. Mitchell Post, Department of Tennessee and Georgia, and served as its senior vice-commander. At the Nineteenth National Encampment in Portland, Maine, he was elected junior vice-commander-in-chief. He was married and had two sons.

1 —, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Bios 207.

2 —, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Erie, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1896), Pg 888.

3 —, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Erie, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1896), Pg 887.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 251.