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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

HERBERT P. LEWIS.
    Herbert P. Lewis, who owns and edits the Gravette News-Herald, one of the
leading newspapers of Arkansas, has also gained prominence as an author,
possessing literary ability of a high order. He was born in Minnesota, February
24, 1S74, a son of Leland B. and Emily (Chreviston) Lewis, the former born at
Cornish Flats, New Hampshire, August 23, 1826, and the latter at Racine,
Wisconsin, in 1843. When a young man of twenty-three years, the father joined
the rush of gold seekers who made their way to California in 1849, and
subsequently he went to Minnesota, where his marriage occurred. He resided in
that state from 1859 until 1891, when he came to Arkansas, settling at Sulphur
Springs, in Benton county, where he followed the occupation of farming. He was a
Freethinker in his religious views, and politically he was a democrat with
independent tendencies. He died at Gravette, Arkansas, at the age of
eighty-three years, and Mrs. Lewis died August 14, 1921, at her home in
California. She was a member of the Baptist church. They became the parents of
eight children; one son and a daughter, are deceased. Those living are: Edward,
who was formerly engaged in the jewelry business at Fairmont, Minnesota, hut is
now operating a fruit farm at Santa Ana, California; Charles F., a leading
physician of Austin, Minnesota, owning a clinic there in association with two
other members of the profession; Alvin, who is assisting his brother Edward in
conducting his California farm; Herbert P., of this review; George. a resident
of Willis, Kansas, and Orin J., who resided with his mother in Los Angeles,
California. The paternal grandfather, Thomas Lewis, was of Irish descent, and
his demise occurred in one of the New England states. The maternal grandfather,
William Chreviston, was born in Pennsylvania, and prior to the Civil war went to
Minnesota, where he spent his remaining years.

    Herbert P. Lewis acquired his education in the rural schools of Minnesota
and the high school at Fairmont, that state. Twenty-five years ago he became a
newspaper correspondent and has gained prominence in this connection,
contributing articles to the Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette and also to The Democrat
and other leading publications. Fifteen years before starting his newspaper he
was connected with business interests of Gravette as a photographer and jeweler,
but for the past fourteen years has devoted the greater part of his time to
journalism. He owns and edits the Gravette News-Herald, which he is conducting
along the lines of modern and progressive newspaper education, and its
circulation is steadily increasing. He is a trenchant, forceful, scholarly
writer and has become well known as the author of Uncle Eb and also The Man From
Arkansas, written in defense of Arkansas and in humorous style.

    In 1896 Mr. Lewis was united in marriage to Miss Rosemonde Cooper, a native
of Kansas and a daughter of George W. Cooper, who served as a soldier in the
Union army during the Civil war. Mrs. Lewis was educated at Vinita Academy of
Vinita, Oklahoma, and by her marriage she has become the mother of four
children: H. Wyric, the eldest of the family, is his father's assistant in
business. Previous to the World war he was stationed with the United States
troops on the Mexican border, and on the 8th of September, 191S, he reached
Prance, being attached to the One Hundred and Forty-fourth Arkansas Regiment. He
enlisted from Fayetteville, Arkansas, and became corporal and battery clerk. He
volunteered for service in company with another young man from Gravette, and in
1919 returned to the United States. Jesse D., an automobile mechanic residing at
Taos, New Mexico, is the only member of the family who has married. L. Frank is
attending the Gravette high school, and Sadie Lea is also in school.

    The family are all members of the Christian church, with the work of which
Mr. Lewis has been actively identified for a period of twenty-five years. He has
served as clerk and elder and for fourteen years has been superintendent of the
Bible school, working untiringly to upbuild the interests of the church. His
fraternal connections are with the Knights of Pythias, the Ancient Order of
United Workmen and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has taken
the Rebekah degree. He is a democrat in his political views, and during his
residence in Gravette has been called upon to fill a number of public positions,
serving at clerk of the school board for nine years, and he has also been city
clerk. That he is public spirited and progressive is indicated in the fact that
during the entire period of his residence here he has acted as secretary of the
Commercial Club. In 1920 he spent seven months in Little Rock as publicity
director for Jim G. Ferguson. For several years he has been a member of the
Authors and Composers' Society of that city. He has been a close student of the
questions and issues of the day as affecting the welfare of community, state and
nation, and has made the News-Herald the champion of every movement tending
toward the upbuilding of Benton county along intellectual, political, material
and moral lines.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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