found: NUCMC data from Falmouth Hist. Soc. for Lewis family. Collection of papers, ca. 1790-1962(Samuel Lewis; s. of Samuel; with family travelled from Falmouth, Mass. to Cincinnati, O., 1813, walking to Pittsburgh and then on flatboat down Ohio R. to Cincinnati)
found: Freeman, F. Hist. of Cape Cod, 1862:v. 2, p. 481 (Samuel Lewis, Esq.; b. 1799 in Falmouth, Mass.; farmer in Ohio; became lawyer, admitted to bar, 1822; Methodist minister; appointed as Gen'l Supt. of Common Schools, State of Ohio in 1837; known as "father of common schools in Ohio")
found: WwWA, hist. vol., 1607-1896(Lewis, Samuel; 1799-1854; educator; s. of Samuel and Abigail (Talman) L.; m. Charlotte Goforth; lawyer; educator; active in anti-slavery movement; of Cincinnati, O.)