LEWIS, Barbour, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Alburg, Vt.,
January 5, 1818; attended the common schools; was graduated from Illinois
College, Jacksonville, Ill., in 1846; taught school in Mobile, Ala.; was
graduated from the law department of Harvard University; was admitted to
the bar and practiced; delegate to the Republican National Convention at
Chicago in 1860; during the Civil War enlisted in the Union Army August
1, 1861, and served as captain of Company G, First Missouri Volunteers;
appointed by the military authorities judge of the civil commission court
at Memphis, Tenn., in 1863; discharged from the service November 15, 1864;
president of the commissioners of Shelby County, Tenn., 1867-1869; elected
as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress;
resumed the practice of law in Memphis, Tenn.; moved to St. Louis, Mo.,
in 1878; appointed to the United States land office at Salt Lake City,
Utah; resigned this position in 1879 and moved to Whitman County, Territory
of Washington, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock raising;
died in Colfax, Wash., July 15, 1893; interment in Colfax Cemetery.