Senator Lewis was born in Danville, Ya., May 18, 1863. In his youth his parents moved to August, Gg. and after an carly education there he went to the University of Virginia, where he spent four years in the mellow atmosphere of Thomas Jefferson's scholastic ideal.
In 1889 Senator Lewis took up the practice of law in Seattle, Wash., and served in the territorial senate. Later ne went to London as a member of joint high commission of Canadian and Alaskan boundaries for the presentation of north-west claims.
In 1892 Senator Lewis ran for governor of Washington but was defeated. Later defeats followed when he ran for the governorship of Illinois, and for the re-election in 1900 he was mentioned for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination but in both instances he was nosed out by others, During the Spanish-American war he served in Cuba and Porto Rice and acquired the rank of colonel.
In the Wilson administration he was held in high esteem by the executive branch of the government. He had previously become well-known on the continent and during the World War was sent abroad on numerous confident. missions. Since then he Genoa, Lausanne and Geneva international conferences.
His election in 1930 was on a wet-dry issue in which he espoused the anti-prohibition cause.—United Press.
Mr. H. L. Wise Wood New York, Apr. 9.
Mr. Henry A. Wise Wood, inventor of the modern printing press machinery and a well-known writer. died here today at the age of 73.
He invented the auto plate, a machine for making printing plates for newspapers heretofore made by hand, for which he was awarded in 1908 the, Elliott Cresson gold medal by the Franklin Institute. He also invented numerous mechanism for the printing art, one of which doubt led the speed of the modern newspaper printing press and another Which replenished paper-rolls of newspaper presses at full speed—United Press.
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