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| | "Leon" LEWIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | Julius Warren Lewis, better known as "Leon" Lewis, was born in Southington, Connecticut, April 8, 1833, the second son but fourth child of James Dana Lewis and his wife Patty Bishop. |
 | | In 1864, Lewis was still writing under the pen name "Illion Constellano," and under that name in the New York Ledger for October I, 1864, appeared the first installment of "The Diamond Seeker." Beginning in that year, and continuing for four years, he changed from the Ledger to the New York Weekly. |
 | | Lewis returned to the United States in 1884 and went to live in Greenport, in the town of Southhold, Long Island. |
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