The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-01
FIFTY YEARS IN
 PUBLIC SCHOOL, Principal John G. Lewis of Web
 ster District Completes Half a Century, Here.
INCIDENTS OF SERVICE.
Story of Man Who Has Seen Local Schools Grow from Seventeen to ' Forty-four During His
 Period of Work. !,

 The expression "Multum in pa has never had better application to the present supervising princip' the Webster school district in this John c. Lewis. If ever there " man of the teaching profession has combined Much in littie," 1 ability in small body, he is Mr L A fearless disciplinarian, a reled worker, a thorough teacher, a lea scholar and an admirable personI are all combined in him.
 With the new year MT. Lewis have completed his fiftieth year teacher in the schools of New H but 1t has not been from him u reminder that these things are sd come. He Is a teacher of the school. who does not believe 1T, methods of advertising which pervaded public life of late years its walks. Indeed to set Mir. Lev say anything about himself in col tion with his coming anniversary been well nigh impossible.
 It is not certain when the Cfga| alumni of the Webster s will celebrate MT. Lewis come with the schools of New Haven. the first of the year he will taught fifty years in the WI school; and in December. 1913. If have been principal of that schs fifty years. It is probable. h that the first of these dates taken advantage of and thatI suitable action and some apprt presentation will soon be made man who has been so intimatelE nected with the Webster school velopment,
 MT. Lewis is a member of a fl. of six children, of whom he Is thI est. He is the son of Enoch Ley farmer, and Sarah Knowles. He born March 1s, 1854, at Hopkintc I. Hopkinton is near westerly. / John q, was about years old { ther moved to Hampton, WI county, taking his wife and chs, him. Ho had tra kinton for q
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 beliefs the farm at M
 worked on Sunday, Ssatuk
 Sunday of the Severath Day Der The other reIsltrfrsoaf the Lewise exception to .this branch of the for doing thiss and the removal tt necticut canhe to enable them away from jthese objections and cisms.
 As a yoyng man John c. Re' to Rhode IIslaild again and in dence seryfed for some years as CTS devil on the Providence U which wals at that time owned uncle, a tman named Knowles.
 While Inc wds working at the nal officds he kas connected wi printing of a humber of differel tery tickets. One of these To, the story of which MT. Lewis loves tP tell, was the so-called jana lottery. partic|pated in
 Lat5r than this he weI,sJ ss' the Friends Academy near VI and after that at thd Normal at New Britain. It was there met his future bride, Miss J
 Hart, who was at that time at fhe Normal school| too.
 Mir. Lewis first wdrk as a was at Middle Hadfam, wh,l taught a regular, oldf|ashioned, Il ;. edl country school. Later he N Long Island, where he had
 charge of like nature. | In 1858 MT. Lewis had an z
 come to New Haven, which he t lly accented for he wlas glad to cl to this part of the country
 where so many of his friends ,G His new position was at the O. well Avenue schofol, which standing. Then it |was one of e schools in the city, To-day it , as an ungraded primary school Winchester district.
 K Of the old Dix|vell Avenue r as MT. Lewis found 1t when h : to lew Haven, Daniel c. Giln t his report as actiiig school visi| Q there was no superintendent of n in those days). for the sciioo
 1S5S-9. said: ''Two, of the sci1ot e of brick, the Eaton, the other e n the Dixwell, are new and cor e cus,' from which 1t may be gs : that the Dixwell Avenue schoo L.