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 | | John D. Lewis, Section 24, Washington Township, was born in Hocking County, Ohio, March 26, 1848, a son of Frederick and Henrietta (Lentz) Lewis, natives of Wittemberg, Germany, who came to America on the same vessel in 1846, and were married after their arrival in New York. |
 | | After the death of the father in 1850, the mother married John M. Long, who was born in Wittemberg in 1808, and came to America with his wife and one child. |
 | | John D. Lewis came to Blackford County with his mother and step-father in September, 1852, and was here reared, and has since lived on the farm entered by Mr. |
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