Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1885 — E. P. C. LEWIS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

E. P. C. LEWIS.

Minister to Portugal.

Edward Parke Custis Lewis, who has been selected as Minister to Portugal, was bom in Virginia in 1837. He was farming in that State when the war broke out, and served in the Confederate army, rising to the rank of Colonel. After the war he removed to New Jersey, and has since resided in Hoboken. He is of old revolutionary stock, his grandfather, Lawrence Lewis, being a nephew of George Washington. Mr. Lewis has been a member of the New Jersey Legislature and of the Democratic State Committee.