Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-14
JUDGE |. |. LEWIS DIES
FTER LENGTHY ILLNESS
Former President of Virginia Su.
prcmc Court and Federal
District Attorney.
DESCENDANT OF EARlN JuRIsr
Appointed 10 Office by Presidents
Grant and Roosevelt AMI to
Highest Tribunal OF State by
Governor Cameron.

Judge Lunsford Lomax Lewis. forme
P.eStdcn; OF the Suprcmc Court OF Ap
pea!S. and twice named United States
District Attorney for the Eastern Dis
trict OF Virginia, died yesterday morn
ing at ll:Ao o'clock. after u lengthy i'll
moss.
The death of Judge Lewis remove!
enc OF the few remaining outstanding
figures of the stirring days foliowins
IA. War Between the States. .
strong convictions, Judge Lewis tool
prominent part III reshaplnS tn.
1cstinics OF the State. although a mem.
Der OF the now minority party. which
~ one time, made him its STANDARD
bearer in Guhernatorial contest il
which Claude y. Swanson was Tho
Whiie serving as United states dis
Of Virginia under President Grant
Judge Lewis was elevated 10 the ju-
dietary by the General Assembly which
elected him TO the Supreme Court o,
Appeals, Although only Sc. Judge
Lewis assembled to the bench before his
Moncurc. and his appointment to the
vacancy by Governor Cameron.
Iisnorcd by Roosevelt.
President Roosevelt was the second
Judge Lewis. appointing him in 1902
Snited States district attorney for the
Eastern District Of Virginia the identi-
Crane Sai POST ne "Aa MED 1''er PRESIDENT
After resisning the Office OF United
;!:ne 20 private practice. so)u after be-
Ing associated ritn .he la'c y. &. tTa&-
ton as counse. 30, the receivers of the
and also as counsel FOR the I'islcr ~ :
tcrests in the wcll.known street car
litigation between MI. Fisher and the
Goulds.
Judge Lewis was born at Lewiston.
RtockinEham COUNT. on March II; 1876.
Lewis and Nina Maria (Lomax) Lewis,
and was descendant OF John Lewis
Of County Down, ireland. who caIno
hrs; 10 Pennsylvania. but removed to
virginia in l732, being the first permc-
negt white settler in Augusta county
mothers side, lud-.. Lewis was de-
;scentcd from Sir Thomas Lunsford,
came 10 Virginia in 1919
Judge Lewis was educated ~ Center
9Ssef HHfi rani, and al ~ The uniEeT
mittei to the bar and entered UPON
practice in Culpcpev County. becoming
C2lnnonwcaIth's Attorney shortly there.
Belonged 10 Many Clubs.
Indge Lewis Was " member OF tho
hi Beta Kappa fraternity and also III
the city, state ana American Ear AS
dent OF The Virginia Bar Association
AfnSrican IA Association. lie vas ~: :,
n.'mbc- &c the COMMONWEALTH cub ani
~ the N.rgtr!a society. sons OF tho
irS%'u"ni, {. that society Tor several
Years he was u :ncnhcr .! the Grace
Episcopal Church
,. Jndg., LOWS ,"as twins marriyd Ills
hrst wife was l:o>alic Bolts, daughter
- Hon. John Minor Eottc Hy This
,wd q :, 5 There We" hrec Yh',,arcn
Lewis. of LynrhhurS. and s II. Lewis.
-. Iiirhmond, his daughter. Miss Mary
W. LOWS, having died several years
80 .'pnE" i'vwls ,second wife wn"
,ErNtNcs him Was Miss jamie l.ooncy.
Funeral From Grncc church.
Tho funeral wil take place toruor-
VOW afternoon al o'clock from Grace
i:ni*copal Church, the rector. tho Rrv
William II Bnrkhardi. assisted by tho
Rev. Or l.andon L. Mason. officiating.
me burial viii be in hollywood Fol
loving are M names Of those chosen
c. hf,,y' I dSSsSpR Z ,;o,i hr"4y fr ti
Minor, Robert II. Tallcy and W. OF
!nond Young
Iionorary..Judsc C;cors" J. Chris.
{ s!,h,,, EpP@ HaH it" r.. !, lloIlaaay,
l.! Randolph Williams II. /. ,!ahsIii''
i +: S,ah n l'f~ s,aa A. In; afs Iamys
Patterson. LiL..Gr!t II Myers - IT,
uVWS.i iiii. ": hrydo. ,I%nnnnt, Edward
cary, l;ichard II. smith. Herbert "
jackson, William IL White William i
NiasS!r. Captain " Gordon McCabe
itonrY W. Anderson Richmond; H. ST
fccrSr Tucker, of Lexington: Robert
n Hughes. % Norfolk; Major James
~ lpo"icy Coionr! u. q. james George
DAVIS, ludg" Edmund W;,ddili Jr
Jude Beverly r. Crnmp, .udIc /;
'artcr Scott, lude" William 4 Mon
cure. hr II " Hitutou. pr stuart
Mot;uirs So l. !'atcson and Henry
,inhn = Mine president Of tho
!:'vhmond Bar Association. last nighr
isEur" call for ;uc a~. collation. 10
attend ihc t.nvrIi Yea 4 body. me"tins
- tho "huren tomorrow arternuom