Lewis, Richard Henry, 1832-1917

found: The Lewis School in Kinston, 1962:leaf 1 (Richard Henry Lewis) leaf 6 (b. Dec. 21, 1832) leaf 5 (d. in 1917)

found: Alumni history of the University of North Carolina, 1924:p. 365 (Lewis, Richard Henry, teacher 1852-54 and 1869; physician 1856-69; capt. C.S.A.; pres. Judson Col. 1889-92)

found: Finding aid for Lewis family of Edgecombe County, N.C., papers, via UNC University Libraries WWW site, Apr. 17, 2020(The collection includes family correspondence, financial and legal papers, and other items of the extended family of Exum Lewis (d. circa 1839), a white planter, postmaster, and county court justice of Edgecombe County, N.C. There are also records relating to land sales, purchases, and ownership; items relating to plantation business, including the condition of slaves; an 1857 travel diary, perhaps belonging to Ivey Foreman Lewis (1833-1884), describing a trip to Europe; and notes for lectures, 1883-1887, on physiology and hygiene by Richard Henry Lewis (1832-1917). There are also photograph albums and scrapbooks relating to Richard Henry Lewis's grandson McDaniel Lewis (1894-1978) and his first wife Lynnwood Cook Lewis (1896-1964), their daughters Margaret (b. 1920) and Mary Lynn (b. 1926), and their grandchildren) - https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00427/

found: NCpedia WWW site, Apr. 17, 2020(Lewis, Richard Henry; born 21 Dec. 1832, Edgecombe County, N.C., died 15 May 1917; educator and physician; between 1852 and 1854 he taught in Person County at Mount Tirzah, in Fayetteville, and in Warren County; in 1856 he was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania and began his practice in Halifax County, Va., and Edgecombe County, N.C.; served as coprincipal of St. John's Female Academy at Oxford, directed the Mills River Academy near Hendersonville, and was president of Judson College in Hendersonville from 1889 to 1893; in 1877 he and C. W. Howard established and operated the Kinston Collegiate Institute; Lewis resigned from the institute in 1882 to open Kinston College; returning to Kinston from Hendersonville in 1893, he and his wife conducted the Lewis School, a coeducational private school, in their home until 1902) - https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/lewis-richard-henry