- MARSHALL B. LEWIS, an enterprising and highly popular young
farmer and school teacher of
- Jordan township, Green county, is a native of that township,
having been born May 12, 1862, on the old LEWIS farm in Section
8.
- James LEWIS, his father, was born in the North of Ireland,
of Scotch and Welsh ancestry, a son
- of John LEWIS, who died in his native land. James came to
this country in 1848, settling in 1860 in Jordan township, Green
Co., Wis., where he took up agricultural pursuits, and is now
the owner of a fine farm of 300 acres, well cultivated and yielding
good crops. He is one of the few living old settlers who came
here some forty years ago. In politics he is a Republican, in
religious faith a Presbyterian.
- In April, 1852, James LEWIS married Miss Anna HOOD, and eight
children blessed their union,
- six of whom are yet living: (1) Andrew, of the firm of STRIEFF
& LEWIS, hardware merchants, Monroe, Green county; he is
the present county chairman, and for some time was clerk of the
circuit court. He married Miss Kate DICKSON, of Argyle, Wis.
(2) Elizabeth was the wife of Ernest RANKIN, formerly of Argyle,
Wis., and died in Fresno, Cal. (3) Margaret married William MITCHELL,
of Lafayette county; she died in Blanchardville, Wis. (4) John
is register of deeds for Green county, and makes his home in
Monroe; he is unmarried. (5) Marshall B. is the subject proper
of these lines. (6) George lives in Plainview, Neb.; he married
Janet WATSON. (7) Ella is the wife of J. H. BRITT, of Illinois.
(8) Miss Mary lives at home, and is housekeeper for her aged
father and her brother Marshall. The mother of this family died
Jan. 30, 1897, aged seventy years, and her remains rest in the
LEWIS cemetery, town of Jordan. Mr. LEWIS has eleven living grandchildren,
and one great-grandchild. Andrew LEWIS had three children, Leo
and Grace, living, and one that died in infancy. Elizabeth left
one living child, Millie. Margaret left one son, Allen Ernest
MITCHELL, now in business with his father at Monroe. George has
four daughters, Emily, Mary Dale, Phyllia and Luella. Ella has
three, Raymond L., Marie and John. The great-grandchild is Wallace
PECK, of Fresno, California.
- Marshall B. LEWIS was reared on the home farm, and received
his education in part at the
- common schools of Jordan township, in part at the Argyle
and Monroe high schools. For the past ten winters he has followed
teaching, farming during the summer months, and he owns a fine
farm of 240 acres adjoining the homestead of his father, where
he carries on general farming, including stock raising and dairying.
In addition to this he conducts the homestead farm, having, altogether,
charge of 540 acres.
- In politics Mr. LEWIS has always been a Republican, and in
religious faith a Protestant. He has
- ever taken an active interest in the affairs of his township,
and has held the offices of school clerk, while at the present
time he is clerk of the township board of supervisors. Socially
he is a Freemason in good standing, a member of Monroe Lodge,
No. 21, and is also affiliated with the K. of P., Monroe Lodge,
No. 41. He has not yet enrolled himself in the noble order of
Benedicts. A genial, well-read, sociable gentleman, Mr. LEWIS
has many warm friends, and enjoys the respect of the community
at large.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; pp. 961-962.
-
- Courtesy of Carol.
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