from The Republican (Danville, Indiana)--issue of March 24, 1892
Republican candidates for county office:
is the only candidate for the office of commissioner of his district. He was born in Tennessee in 1851. His parents were loyal, having four sons in the Union army although they were members of the Friends church. Mr. Lewis came to Indiana in 1865 and to Hendricks county in 1871. He worked on the farm when a boy and attended the common schools and afterwards attended Spiceland Academy and Business College. He was in the railway mail service three years and was seriously injured in a wreck. Since 1884 he has been engaged in the hardware business at Plainfield. Being an active business man, he believes the county business should be managed as carefully as private business. In the short time he has been in office he has won much praise by his careful attention to all the details of the business of his office. In speaking of him the [Danville] Gazette says, "Mr. Lewis, even if he is a Republican, has made a good official records. In fact he has the reputation of being a kind of Holman on the Board." Mr. Lewis is an earnest, sincere Republican and is the only Republican candidate who is absolutely sure of the nomination.