John Lewis was a merchant and political figure in New Brunswick

New Brunswick

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. He represented Albert County

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 in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick

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 over much of the period from 1852 to 1867.

He was born in Moncton, New Brunswick

New Brunswick

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, the son of Ichabod Lewis and Rebecca Read, and educated there and in Halifax, Nova Scotia

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. In 1829, he married Lavinia Taylor; in 1864, Lewis married Mary Dickson, the widow of Captain William Bennett, after his first wife's death. He established himself as a merchant at Hillsborough

Hillsborough, New Brunswick

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 in 1831. Lewis was a justice of the peace

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 and served as a judge in the Inferior Court of Commons Pleas. He was also president of the Albert Railway for several years. In 1867, he was named to the Legislative Council of New Brunswick

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His son William James Lewis

William James Lewis

William James Lewis was a physician and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada. He represented Albert County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1879 to 1896 and Albert in the Canadian House of Commons from 1896 to 1904 as an Independent and then Liberal member.He was born in...

served in the provincial assembly and the Canadian House of Commons.