LEWIS

FRED E. LEWIS.  The Bar of Lehigh County is well represented by this prominent attorney of Allentown, who is successfully engaged in the legal practice in this his native city.  He was born on the 8^th of February, 1864, and is the only son of Samuel B. and Mary A. (Rosenstiel) Lewis.  The father for many years has been connected with the iron interests of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as was the grandfather, Samuel Lewis, who was among the first to develop the iron interests of Allentown, and who through his business interests was largely instrumental in the upbuilding of the place.  He is still living at the advanced age of ninety, and is well preserved both physically and mentally, his years resting lightly upon him.

            The subject of this sketch attended the public schools of Allentown until sixteen years of age, and later pursued his studies in Yale College, where he remained for a time.  Subsequently he entered Muhlenberg College, in which he continued until he had almost completed the Junior year.  With the desire to make the practice of law his life work, he then entered the law office of R. E. Wright & Son, under whose direction he continued his reading for some time.  When he had thoroughly prepared himself by earnest application and close study he passed an examination, and was admitted to the Bar on the 13^th of February, 1888.  He continued with his old preceptor in practice for one year.  On the expiration of that period he removed to No. 524 Hamilton Street, where his present office is located, and has since been alone in business.  In February, 1893, he was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the state.

            Turning from the public to the private life of Mr. Lewis we record his marriage, which was celebrated April 16, 1892, Miss Juliet Hamersley, of Allentown, becoming his wife.  She is a daughter of James B. Hamersley, of this place.  Mr. and Mrs. Lewis have one child, Samuel Lewis (the third), born May 22, 1893.

            In his political views Mr. Lewis is a stalwart Republican, and was nominated on the ticket of that party as Register of Wills.  The Democratic majority is usually twenty-five hundred, but he reduced it to three hundred and sixty, a fact which indicates his popularity and the high regard in which he is held.  For three successive years he has been President of the Goodwill Fire Company of Allentown, which numbers among its members some of the best citizens of the place, and is Treasurer and foreman of the company.  Mr. Lewis is a wide-awake and enterprising young man, alive to the best interest of the city, and is a popular and genial gentleman, who has a wide acquaintance in his native county and the esteem of all with whom business or social relations have brought him in contact.

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