CLASS OF 1866

Frank Wesley Lewis was born in Claremont, N. H., March 30, 1840, being the son of George G. Lewis and Adelaide Labaree. He was the second of five sons, all of whom graduated from Dartmouth. He prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy. In 1866-68 he was principal of the high school at East Randolph, Mass., which soon after became the separate town of Holbrook through his efforts, submaster of the Prescott grammar school at Charlestown, Mass., in 1868-70, and teacher of Latin in Dean academy, Franklin, Mass., in 1870-71. He was married at Holbrook, Dec. 13, 1870, to Mary Burr, daughter of Newton and Rhoda (White) White. He began soon after to study law in the office of Mr. Henry W. Paine of Boston, and in 1872 became a member of the Boston bar. In 1873 he began practice in the town of Weymouth, Mass., where he became interested in all matters affecting the public welfare, and especially in developing and perfecting the public library system. In 1885 he removed to Lincoln, Neb., to join his brother, Henry E. Lewis '72, in the business of farm mortgages and Western bonds. , Here also he showed that great public spirit which characterized his whole life. At that time Lincoln was politically in the hands of the saloon element and others profiting by lawlessness, Mr. Lewis served for a number of years as attorney of the Law and Order League, and after many discouragements obtained the conviction of several prominent lawbreakers. He was then instrumental in organizing an independent municipal party, and twice carried on successful campaigns, leading to the election of two reform candidates for mayor. In 1894 he returned to the East, residing at Newton, Mass. During the last few years of his life he devoted himself entirely to an endeavor to improve the lot of the workingman. Through magazine articles, and especially through his book on " State Insurance," published in 1909, he made an earnest plea for public attention to some of the crying injustices of our social system. After an illness of a year and a half, he died at the Memorial Hospital, Concord, N. H., October 8, 1909, of intestinal cancer, leaving a .widow and three children,— Mary H. Lewis, teacher in the Horace Mann School, New York City Gilbert N. Lewis, professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Roger L. Lewis, instructor in English in Har vard University.

Our classmate Ide says of him:—"Lewis, as you know, was one of the most substantial men of our class; one of the brightest scholars, and thorough and strong in his work. He was one of the most conscientious and independent men I ever knew, and never wavered in his convictions, political, social, and moral."

Secretary, Henry Whittemore, Framingham, Mass.