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Title: Ernest A. Lewis
Dates: circa 1890-1920
Collection Number: 2019-P-095
Quantity: 13 items
Abstract: Images of Sheridan House, Bismarck (N.D.), Snow scene on Main Ave. Bismarck, a steamboat on Bismarck Ways, Post Office, Frettin (N.D.), Packet Boat Benton, S. T. Parker store, Sterling (N.D.), and a Northern Pacific train wreck, McKenzie (N.D.).
Provenance: The State Historical Society of North Dakota acquired this collection from Ernest Lewis in 1962.
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Biographical Sketch
From the Steele Ozone Press, Wednesday May 6, 1981
Ernest A. (Swede) Lewis, 85, Dawson postmaster fr4om 1940 to 1965, died Thursday, April 30 in a Bismarck hospital. Services were held at 10 a.m. Monday, May 4 at the United Church of Christ in Dawson, with military rites by the Dawson American Legion Post.
The Rev. Virgil Allard officiated. Pallbearers were Roy Wollschlaeger, Harold Stein, Ben Kinev, Henry Mueller, Frank Barnick and Tim White. The honorary pallbearers were Lee Markham, Fred Kemmet, Harry Olson, Fred Eberl, Paul Abbott and John Kemmet.
He was born March 12, 1896 at Grove City, Minn. to Mr. and Mrs. (Ellen) Nels Lewis and came to North Dakota in 1905, settling at Dawson. He was a World War I veteran who saw action in the battles at Argonne and Meuse. He was awarded the Silver Star. He married Rebecca Yetter Jan. 28, 1921 at Steele.
He leaves his wife; one daughter, Betty Schneckloth, Missoula, Mont.; two sons, Gerald, Steele, and Delmar, Langdon; nine grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Abby Froelich, Spokane, Wash., and Esther McKellip, Faribault, Minn.
Inventory
2019-P-095-00001 S. T. Parke store, Sterling (N.D.) circa 1900
2019-P-095-00002 Northern Pacific train wreck, McKenzie (N.D.) 01/27/1910
2019-P-095-00003 Northern Pacific train wreck, McKenzie (N.D.) 01/27/1910
2019-P-095-00004 Northern Pacific train wreck, McKenzie (N.D.) 01/27/1910
2019-P-095-00005 Northern Pacific train wreck, McKenzie (N.D.) 01/27/1910
2019-P-095-00006 Northern Pacific train wreck, McKenzie (N.D.) 01/27/1910
2019-P-095-00007 Northern Pacific train wreck, McKenzie (N.D.) 01/27/1910
2019-P-095-00008 Looking southeast on Main Ave. to Sheridan House, Bismarck (N.D.) circa 1890
2019-P-095-00009 Main Avenue, Bismarck (N.D.) circa 1890
2019-P-095-00010 Steamboat Ways and Northern Pacific Railroad Bridge, Bismarck (N.D.) circa 1890
2019-P-095-00011 Post Office, Frettin (N.D.) circa 1890
2019-P-095-00012 Packet boat Benton on the Missouri River 1905-1920
2019-P-095-00013 Packet boat Benton on the Missouri River 1905-1920
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