Northumberland-Lancaster County PA Archives Biographies.....Dewart, Lewis 1849 - living in 1899
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Author: Biographical Publishing Co.

  LEWIS DEWART, a leading member of the Northumberland County Bar, was born in
Sunbury May 6, 1849. He received all the education that the common schools
offered and then took a preparatory course at Columbia, Pa., and at Edge Hill.
After this he entered Princeton College and was graduated in the class of 1872.
Choosing the legal profession as his life work, he entered the law office of
Judge Jordan, with whom he read law until he was admitted to the bar in 1874.
The standing which the young attorney quickly acquired may be appreciated by the
fact that in the following year he was made borough clerk and in 1877 was
elected to the responsible position of district attorney of Northumberland
County. He has since been engaged in active practice in Sunbury, and, having
received a thorough preparation and having mental abilities and a natural bent
of the kind most useful to a successful lawyer, our subject has attained both
prosperity and influence. Shrewd, alert, and farseeing, he is an advocate in
whom men trust and an antagonist whom they combat with caution. He is a
gentleman of wide range of experience, and in the financial field, in which he
is an important factor, he brings to bear the same thorough and methodical ways
which stand him in such good stead in his profession. Politically Mr. Dewart is
an influential Democrat. He has been a delegate to county, district, state and
national conventions, having been a delegate to the convention that nominated
Grover Cleveland for the presidency in 1892. Socially he is a member of Sunbury
Lodge, No. 22, F. & A. M. Mr. Dewart is one of the representative men of Sunbury
and takes an important part in the general councils of the best citizens in
matters pertaining to the welfare of the community and the general prosperity of
the town.

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Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
Published by 
Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)

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