Rev. Timothy J. Lewis From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 1033.

TOWN OF JAMESTOWN

REV. TIMOTHY J. LEWIS, Jamestown; born in New York in 1825; moved to Wisconsin in 1850, and settled in Rock Co.; is a minister of the Gospel; has been a member of the West Wisconsin Conference twelve years; stationed at Jamestown, Grant Co., Wis., in 1880; prior to his ministry he followed the business of carpenter and joiner. Politics, Republican. Served in the navy one year; shipped in the navy as a common sailor, and a year in the Mississippi squadron; was aboard the iron-clad Choctaw. Married Ellen Himebaugh, a native of Pennsylvania; have six children - Francis E., Henry B., Fred F., Mina B., Timothy G., Hattie May.

 


This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.