Calvin E. Lewis
Calvin E. Lewis (August 26, 1834 – April 24, 1926) was a businessman and manufacturer of woolens from Wisconsin who served as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Dodge County, and later was on the park board of Milwaukee.
Background[edit]
Lewis was born on August 26, 1834, in Rouses Point, New York, and received a public school education. He moved to Wisconsin in 1849, initially settling in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and went into woolen manufacturing.
Legislature[edit]
Lewis was elected to the Assembly's newly-redistricted 2nd Dodge County seat (the City of Beaver Dam, and the Towns of Beaver Dam and Lowell for the 1872 session as a Republican, with 748 votes to 603 for Democrat W. L. Parker (incumbent Allen Hiram Atwater was re-elected to the revised 3rd district). He was assigned to the standing committee on state affairs.[1][2] He was not the Republican nominee in 1872, and was succeeded by Democrat John Runkel.
Milwaukee[edit]
He later moved to Milwaukee, where he was involved in various civic affairs. In 1889, he was one of three purchasers of the Milwaukee Academy of Music,[3] a theater designed by Edward Townsend Mix which in 1882 had been the first in Milwaukee to install electric lighting.[4]
He served on that city's first park board.[5] He died in Milwaukee in 1926, and was buried in Beaver Dam's Oakwood Cemetery.[5][6]
References[edit]
- ^ The Legislative Manual of the State of Wisconsin (11th ed.). Madison, Wis. 1872. pp. 446, 469.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Lawrence S. Barish, ed. (2007). State of Wisconsin Blue Book 2007–2008. p. 155.
- ^ "Wisconsin Items ..." Gogebic Iron Tribune. Hurley, Wisconsin. December 28, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved January 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Beutner, Jeff. "YESTERDAY'S MILWAUKEE:Academy of Music, 1860s; Built where the new Marriott Hotel now stands, it was the city's most prestigious opera house". Urban Milwaukee. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
- ^ a b "The body of Calvin E. Lewis ..." Wisconsin State Journal. Madison, WI. April 29, 1926. p. 21. Retrieved April 10, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Lewis, Calvin E." Wisconsin Historical Society. January 2012. Retrieved 2015-12-10.
