Joseph William Lewis died in Lynn, Mass., April 26, 1916. His sudden death was due to acute pneumonia. "Joe" was born in Maiden, Mass., September 16, 1888, and received his preparatory education at Lynn, Mass. After graduating in 1912, Joe entered the Thayer School, but had not yet completed his work there. During the last few years he had been doing practical surveying work, at first with the Boston and Albany Railroad, and recently with the Engineering Department of the city of Lynn. He married September 26, 1912, at Center Ossipee, N. H., Miss Ethel Newhall, and leaves surviving a son Charles Edmund, born March 19. 1916, hardly five weeks before his father's death.