Edwin
S. Lewis
Rev. E. S. Lewis, A. M., acting president of Chattanooga University, was born in Natick, Mass., August 24, 1855. His father, Rev. Joseph W. Lewis, was a Methodist Episcopal minister of Massachusetts for many years, of which State he was a native. His mother, Miss Dorcas K. Hoar, was a member of one of the most prominent families of the State. Their family consisted of three children - two sons and one daughter. Our subject was the eldest child, and while growing up received his education in the public and high schools of his native State. He prepared, by private instruction, for Boston University, and graduated in 1877 from the College of Liberal Arts, and four years later also graduated from the school of all science of the same university. He was professor of natural science in the Cincinnati Wesleyan College, has held the position of president of Little Rock University, and accepted his present position in 1886. In 1879 he married Miss Anna C. Sparks of Hamilton County, Ohio, who bore him two children, only one now living, Edward R. He and wife are both members and active workers in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee." 1887