Born: De­cem­ber 30, 1780, Bask­ing Ridge, New Jer­sey.

Died: Sep­tem­ber 18, 1859, Un­ion­town, Penn­syl­van­ia.

Buried: Mountain View Cem­e­t­ery, Mt. Ver­non, Ohio.

Lewis, a sur­vey­or and school teach­er, wrote mu­sic on the side. In 1816, he acc­omp­a­nied Si­mon Ber­nard, a former French gen­er­al and en­gin­eer of Na­pol­e­on I, in one of his ear­ly ex­pe­di­tions in Amer­i­ca. Lewis al­so served as Coun­ty Surveyor of Fay­ette Coun­ty, Penn­syl­van­ia (1828-1836), and helped Jon­a­than Knight su­rvey the Ches­a­peake and Ohio Ca­nal. His works in­clude:

• The Beauties of Harmony, 1813, 1816, 1818

Sources

Music

1. Awful Majesty (attributed)
2. Beloved, Davis
3. Bourbon