Lewis, Richard C.

Born: 1833-XX-XX Pennsylvania

Flourished: Vandalia, Illinois

Born in Eberberg, Pennsylvania, Richard C. Lewis worked as a lawyer in Vandalia, Illinois, by the time he was twenty-seven years old. He represented Fayette County as a delegate to the 1858 Illinois Republican Convention. Two years later he participated in a Fayette County Teachers' Institute. In October 1862, Lewis enlisted as a private in Company F, Fourteenth Illinois Cavalry. He mustered out of service in July 1865.

U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Vandalia, Fayette County, IL, 8; Daily Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 16 June 1858, 2:2; History of Fayette County, Illinois (Philadelphia: Brink, McDonough, 1878), 34; Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; W. L. Sanford, comp., History of the Fourteenth Illinois Cavalry (Chicago: R. R. Donnelly, 1898), 334; Gravestone, South Hill Cemetery, Vandalia, IL.