Transcribed from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.

Lewis, an incorporated town in Edwards county, is located in Wayne township on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., 9 miles east of Kinsley, the county seat. It is a new town, founded since 1890, and presents a neat and prosperous appearance with all its buildings new and substantial. It has 2 banks, a newspaper (the Lewis Press), telegraph and express offices, and an international money order postoffice with three rural routes. The population according to the census of 1910 was 557.

Page 149 from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.