FRED E. LEWIS
Portrait
and Biographical Records ~ Page 602
Kindly submitted by: Pauline Anthony
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 8th 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 advance 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 13th 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 this
place, and is Treasurer and foreman of the company. Mr. Lewis
is a wide-a-wake and enterprising young man, alive to the best
interests 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.