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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lewis, Andrew 1730- (search)
Lewis, Andrew 1730- Military officer; born in Donegal, Ireland, in 1730, of a Huguenot family which came to Virginia in 1732. Andrew was a volunteer to take possession of the Ohio region in 1754; was with Washington; and was major of a Virginian regiment at Braddock's defeat. In the expedition under Major Grant, in 1758, he was made prisoner and taken to Montreal. In 1768 he was a commissioner to treat with the Indians at Fort Stanwix; was appointed a brigadier-general in 1774, and on Oct. 10, that year, he fought a severe battle with a formidable Indian force at Point Pleasant, and gained a victory. In the Virginia House of Burgesses, and in the field, he was a bold patriot. A colonel in the army, he commanded the Virginia troops that drove Lord Dunmore from Virginian waters. In that expedition he caught a cold, from the effects of which he died, in Bedford county, Sept. 26, 1781. His four brothers —Samuel, Thomas. Charles, and William —were all distinguished in military
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f President Washington celebrated in New York City and elsewhere......April 29–May 1, 1889 Body of Dr. Cronin, of Chicago, who had disappeared three weeks previously, found in a sewer......May 22, 1889 Johnstown flood......May 31, 1889 John Brown's fort, near Harper's Ferry, swept away by a flood on the Potomac......June, 1889 City of Seattle, W. T., nearly destroyed by fire; 30 acres burned over; loss, $5,000,000......June 6, 1889 Simon Cameron, statesman, born 1799, dies at Donegal, Lancaster co., Pa.......June 26, 1889 Maria Mitchell, astronomer, born 1818, dies at Lynn, Mass.......June 28, 1889 Theodore Dwight Woolsey, ex-president of Yale College, born 1801, dies at New Haven, Conn.......July 1, 1889 Sioux reservation in Dakota (11,000,000 acres) ceded to the United States......Aug. 6, 1889 David S. Terry, assaulting Judge Stephen Field at Lathrop, Cal., is shot dead by United States Marshal Nagle......Aug. 14, 1889 Cronin murder trial begins in Ch