Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 1887,
Carroll Co.

JOHN T. LEWIS was born in Lexington, Ky., February 1, 1838, and is the
son of Dr. John T. and Letitia (Downing) Lewis, natives, respectively, of
Virginia and Lexington, Ky.  Dr. John T. was born in 1803, was a graduate
of Transylvania University, practiced at Lexington and Versailles, Ky.,
was active and efficient throughout the cholera epidemic, settled in
Carrollton in 1846, and died May 2, 1875.  John T. Lewis, our subject, was
born in Lexington, Ky., and reared chiefly in Carroll County.  In
September, 1864, he volunteered in Company B, Fifty-fourth Kentucky Mounted
Infantry, and served until the close of the war, when he returned to
Carrollton, and engaged in the grocery trade; he was also appointed
postmaster of that city during Grant's first administration, and held the
position sixteen years.  His mercantile life began in 1866, with H. C.
Bosworth as partner, and the firm still continues in active trade.
December 16, 1884, Mr. Lewis married Miss Mary L. Shaw, daughter of
William Shaw, of Carrollton, Ky., and natives of Scotland.  Mr. Lewis is
an Odd Fellow and a Republician.

Lewis Downing Shaw Bosworth
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Fayette-KY Woodford-KY VA Scotland

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