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Lewis Genealogies
These extensive databases
were created by Jack Lewis (excerpted from the book below)
and Don Lewis in 1999. In addition to the Lewis Family,
the databases contain numerous other families including
the Surbers. Carol Lewis' maiden name is Surber.
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here to access the databases.
Lewis Family Book
The Lewis Family of
Oliphant Furnance Pennsylvania is more than just a genealogy.
It is a warmly told and richly illustrated autobiographical
history of a coal mining family reared during the Great
Depression and the Second World War in a small company "patch"
located in the coal and coke regions of Fayette County,
Pennsylvania. They and their descendants weave a unique
fabric that tells what it was like growing up in a coal
patch and the steel towns along the Ohio River near Pittsburgh.
The book captures extraordianry details of the lives of
the writers and provides an entertaining insight into a
warm and loving American family. In PDF format (27.3 MBytes)
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save to download the book.
Joseph Paul Lewis and
the 1st West Virgina Cavalry
A History of Joseph
Paul Lewis and the 1st West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry
is pamphlet written by Jack W. Lewis. Jack, a lover of horses,
discoverd his surname great grandfather had been in the
1st West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry during the American
Civil War (War Between the States as they say down south).
The pamphlet follows this famous volunteer cavalry regiment
from the time Joseph Paul Lewis joined the regiment in August
of 1863, just after the regiment fought at Gettyburg, to
the end of the war. The regiment saw lots of action in the
Shenandoah Valley and became part of General Armstrong Custer's
famous Third Calvary Division that managed to get in front
of, and stop, General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virgina
at Appomatox Court House on April 8, 1965. This is fast
thrilling reading. In PDF format (0.9 MBytes)
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Modeling Engineering
Systems
Modeling Engineering
Systems is a technical book written by Jack W. Lewis.
It's about the fundamentals of engineering that Jack thinks
all engineers should know. The subject matter was taken
from a number of core courses Jack had while doing graduate
work at MIT and from his days of running an engineering
consulting firm. The book remains popular with
young engineers and especially those engineers who need to brush up on,
or gain a better understanding of, the fundamentals of automatic
control systems. In PDF format (3.8 MBytes)
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View of 1830's log house
View from parking area
1890s parlor
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