The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . head ofaffairs the road has increased in mileage from eightyto 175 miles. Besides acting as the head of the Brook-lyn city railway, he is also president of the BrooklynHeights rail


The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . head ofaffairs the road has increased in mileage from eightyto 175 miles. Besides acting as the head of the Brook-lyn city railway, he is also president of the BrooklynHeights railroad company, and a trustee and mem-ber of the executive committee of the Peoples Trustcompany. He is director and member of the ex-ecutive committee of the Long Island bank, andtnistee and treasurer of the widely-known Lewis andFowler manufacturing company; president of theKnickerbocker steamboat company (the well-knownRockaway line), trustee of the Brooklyn savingsbank, treasurer of the United States Projectile com-pany, and president of the Bay Ridge Park improve-ment company. Mr. Lewis is an active member ofthe Hamilton, Brooklyn, Carleton, Marine and Fieldclubs of Brooklyn, and of the engineers club ofNew York city. He is president of the street rail-way association of the state of New York,, and heis always a busy and interested attendant uponthe convention of the American street railway 190 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA


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