Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1918 — DR. I. M. LEWIS IN WAR SERVICE [ARTICLE]

DR. I. M. LEWIS IN WAR SERVICE

FORMER BARKLEY TOWNSHIP RESIDENT TO REPORT AT NEW HAVEN, CONN. Dr. Isaac M. Lewis, who was reared in Barkley township, this county, has decided to enter the war and will report at New Haven, Conn., by August 23. He will enter the Sanitary Corps and will give special attention to bacteriology, which he has been teaching in college for a number of ye Dr. Lewis was for a number of years a teacher in the schools of this county. In 1906 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana university. In 1908 and 1909 he was instructor in botany in the New Hampshire State university. He received his Doctor’s degree from Indiana university in 1909. Since this time he has been connected with the Texas State university at Austin, Texas. He had been employed for another year but the demand for men of his qualifications is so urgent for war service that Dr. Lewis tendered his resignation to the Texas university. He has been at the head of his department in the university in Texas for a number of After a short period m the east Dr. Lewis may be taken across to assist in the camps in France. Dr. Lewis’ mother and his brother John live on the homestead in Barkley township, and his brother Charles lives on a farm in the state of Maine, time and will lehve early this week. The Doctor is a most splendid fellow, being very affable and congenial, and how he continues a bachelor is beyond our understanding. \