The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography Being the History of the United
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography Being the History of the United
Norris Galpin Osborn
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He died at Cambridge, Mass. , Apr. 13, 1915. LEWMAN, Harry Lucesco, contractor, builder and manufacturer, was born at Greencastle, Ind. , July 15, I860, sou of Moses T. And Naomi Lovanna (Conover) Lewman, and of Scotch and Dutch an- cestry. His father, a native of Charleston, lud. , was a building contractor; served as captain of cavalry (llth regiment Illinois volunteers) under Col. Eobert G. Ingersoll (q. V. ) in the civil war, participating in the battles of Shiloh, Pittsburg Landing, etc. ,... and after the war was a prominent Democratic politician in Indiana. Harry L. Lew- man received his preliminary education in the grammar and high schools of Greencastle, subse- quently becoming a student at DePauw Univer- sity. He began his business career while still a boy, with his father. The firm of M. T. Lewmau & Co. Was then engaged in building and railroad construction all over the United States, and the sou learned the business from the ground up, starting as a bricklayer. While the firm was en- gaged in the construction of the DeSoto Hotel, Savannah, in 1889, the elder Lewman died sud- denly, but the business was continued under the old firm name by Harry Lucesco Lewmau and his brothers, with headquarters in Louisville, Ky.
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