Josiah G. Lewis    

JOSIAH G. LEWIS, farmer, P.O. Crossingville, was born July 29, 1818, in Cussewago Township, this county. His grandfather, George Lewis, came from Maryland to this county in very early times and died in 1801. His son, Eber, married Elizabeth Gibson, and they had seven children: George, Josiah G., John D., Nathaniel, Augustus H., and two sisters deceased. Our subject married Miss Sophia St. John, August 3, 1842. They settled in the woods and cleared up and improved their present farm of eighty-six acres. Their children are—Eber S., of Venango County, Penn.; Mrs. Mary Greenfield; John D.; Mrs. Lavina Harned, and Samuel T. Samuel T. having thoroughly prepared himself for the teacher’s profession, has been for several years successfully engaged in teaching in Crawford and Erie Counties and Venango and Franklin Townships. He married Miss Katie Regan, who is also an experienced teacher.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885. View image of this page of the book on line at ancestry.com.  Free access  More Crawford County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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