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LEWIS, ABNER WILLIAM (1865-1956)

LEWIS, ABNER WILLIAM, Presbyterian minister, Loggieville, 1900-04; b. Cumberland Co., N.S., 24 Jan 1865, s/o Caleb Elisha Lewis and Phebe Harrison; m. 1892, Bertha Laura Hermine Cornelius, of Halifax; d. 15 Mar 1956.

Abner W. Lewis, who was of Loyalist ancestry, was born in or near the town of Parrsboro, N.S. His mother died when he was five, and when he was eleven he moved to Onslow, N.S., with his father and other family members. He received his higher education at Dalhousie University (BA 1886) and studied for the ministry at the Presbyterian College in Halifax (BD 1889). He had pastorates and mission assignments in Nova Scotia, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan, as well as at Waweig in Charlotte Co., N.B., before being called to Loggieville in 1900, as successor to the Rev. William C. Calder. In September 1903 he officiated at the laying of the foundation stone of Knox Church by Lieut. Gov. Jabez B. Snowball. He also took part in the opening of the church on 22 May 1904, but he had already submitted his resignation as pastor.

When Lewis left the Miramichi he went to Harbour Grace, Nfld. He was reported to be still there in 1907 but not in 1908. He continued to have a wandering ministry, or "checkered life," as he described it, not all of which has been documented. Between 1925 and 1930 he had a church in Bend, Oregon. He was living in Warrensburg, N.Y., in 1937 and still in 1944. In the years immediately prior to his death he was ministering in the small town of Otego, N.Y. The degree of DD was appended to his name in 1952, when an Easter editorial of his authorship was published in The Maritime Baptist.

Lewis and his wife, B. L. H. ("Minna") Cornelius, had a daughter and a son, both of whom were born at Loggieville.

Sources

[b] Lewis family data (his own statement) [m] Presb. Witness 17 Dec 1892 [d] Dalhousie archives / Advance 8 Feb 1900, 19 May 1904, 26 May 1904; Advocate 18 May 1904; Leader 5 May 1993; Maritime Baptist 9 Apr 1952; Presb. archives (US); Presb. Witness 1 Mar 1902, 12 Sep 1903; Times 28 May 1954; Walkington; World 21 Nov 1900


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