Draft:Joseph R. Lewis

Joseph R. Lewis (September 17, 1829 – March 19, 1911)^[1] was a justice of the Idaho Territorial Supreme Court from 1869 to 18__.

Born in London, Ontario

Appointed April 15, 1869.^[2] (still alive as of 1900)

Lewis, for many years a pioneer of Idaho and Washington, died suddenly at Los Angeles, Sunday. He was 82 years of age and famous in Idaho and Washington in 1869 to 1885.
Grant appointed him justice of the supreme court of Idaho, on April 15, 1869. g, He made things so hot for wrongdoers that they wrote his resignation, which was accepted and his successor was appointed before the fraud was discovered. He was then given a post in Washington and soon became justice. Ilis record was aggressive at Port Townsend and at Walla Walla and Colville.
He had lived in San Jose and Los Angeles ever since 1892. He was an early banker of Yakima.^[1]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "Judge Joseph R. Lewis Dies", Cottonwood Chronicle (March 24, 1911), p. 2.
^ Weldon Brinton Heyburn, Idaho Laws and Decisions, Annotated and Digested (1900), p. vii.