Author: Lewis, Eldad
Biography:
Lewis, Eldad (1755-1825: ancestry.com)
The son of Sarah (Hart) and Eldad Lewis, he was born in Farmington CT and trained as a doctor. During the Revolutionary War he served as an army surgeon. By 1776 he had settled in Lenox MA, where he was active in community affairs. A Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society, he translated Cullen's Genera morborum as A Methodical System of Nosology (1808). For a short time in 1809, he edited a weekly newspaper, the Watch Light; he was also associated as editor or proprietor with several other papers of the district, and by 1809 was partner in a printing office in Newburgh NY. He was a member of the Evening Star Lodge in Lenox when he published Principles of Masonry (1814). His first wife, Mehitable (her surname not known) died in 1786 and in 1788 Lewis married Ruth Collins. He died in Newburgh NY, where he was living with a son. (ancestry.com 13 Nov. 2019; lenoxhistory.org 13 Nov. 2019; Barbara Jean Mathews, The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles [2015] 2:326)