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 . -7), was bom in New York city Oct. 16,1754, the son of Francis Lewis,one of the signers of the declara-tion of independence. He wasgraduated from Princeton Col-lege, in 1773, when
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 . -7), was bom in New York city Oct. 16,1754, the son of Francis Lewis,one of the signers of the declara-tion of independence. He wasgraduated from Princeton Col-lege, in 1773, when he began thestudy of law in the office of JohnJay, afterward chief justice ofthe U. S. supreme court. On thebreaking out of the revolutionarywar, he volunteered his services,joining the American army underGen. Washington, before was elected captain of a regi-ment of New York militia, wasafterward commissioned as ma-jor, and is mentioned in despatches as havingbehaved gallantly at the battleof Germantown. In 1776 hewas quartermaster-general, withthe rank of colonel under at Saratoga; in the actionat Bemiss Heights he shared the perils and honorsof the day with Arnold, Morgan and the otherofficers, and after the surrender of Burgoyne hewas engaged in the operations undertaken by against the mixed force of British regularsand savages in the northern part of New Resuming his profession of the law in New Yorkcity in 1783, he was soon elected a member of thestate legislature. He afterward removed to Dutch-ess county, and was appointed successively a judgeof the court of common pleas, attorney-general ofthe state, a judge of the supreme court, and, in 1801,chief justice of the same court. In 1804 hewas elected governor of the state of New his office he did much to advance the causeof education and to strengthen the state 1810 he was a member of the state senate; two years later he was appointed quarter-master-gene
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