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LEWIS, LORENZO DOW, Presbyterian minister, was born July 11, 1847, near Gaylesville, Cherokee County; son of Chrisman and Annie (Webb) Lewis, the former a native of Chestnut Hill, Jefferson County, Tenn., who lived at Davis Cross Roads, Cherokee County, and was a blacksmith; grandson of Gabriel and Debie Lewis, of Chestnut Hill, Jefferson County, Tenn., the former a soldier in the War of 1812, and of Thomas Webb, of Chestnut Hill, Tenn.; great-grandson of Shellie Lewis; great-great- grandson of George Lewis, who came with his two brothers, Amos and Mordecai, to the United States from Wales in 1794. He received his early education in Cherokee County, at Davis Cross Roads, and attended the Cumberland university for three years. He became a minister of the Presbyterian church, and served the greater part of his life in that calling. Married: to Indiana Alabama, daughter of John Tyler and Melvinie Culpeper, who lived near Gaylesville, after coming from Tennessee to Alabama. Children: 1. Lottie, Birmingham, m. Robert L. McNutt, deceased, five children; 2. Minnie, m. Robert Engle, one child; 3. Mack, married, four children. Mill Creek, Okla.; 4. O. W., married, five children, Bessemer; 5. W. M., married, two children, Rose- dale; 6. Leona, Birmingham. Residence: Birmingham.
Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer
LEATH, JAMES HILL, manufacturer and legislator, was born March 22, 1864, at Broomtown, Cherokee County; son of James Hill and Hasseltine (Rickey) Leath, who lived at Centre, Cherokee County. He was educated in the common schools of Centre; in 1880 he engaged in printing at Centre, on the "Cherokee Advertiser"; in 1887 was editor of "The Telephone," a weekly paper at Centre, and in 1888 of the "Sylacauga Argus"; removed to Birmingham in 1889, where for ten years he was a printer. He is a cigar manufacturer, and prominent in labor circles. He was one of the representatives in the legislature from Jefferson County, in 1901, and was author of the State printing bill, the union label bill and mechanics lien law for Jefferson County, and a child labor law. He is a Democrat; and a Baptist. He is unmarried. Residence: Birmingham.
Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer
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