The Pioneer Biography: sketches of the lives of some of the early settlers of Butler County, Ohio, 1869-1871 devotes a chapter to Dr. Jacob Lewis. Jacob Lewis was born October 13, 1767 at Somerville, Somerset County, New Jersey. His father, Zachariah Lewis, served in the Revolution and died of camp fever contracted while serving. Around 1790, Jacob visited his sister ? and her husband Joseph Kinan in Tygart's Valley, Virginia, west of the Allegheny Mountains. Joseph Kinan was killed in an Indiana attack, his sister captured, and their small children left bereft. Jacob escaped and rescued the children, returning them to relatives in NJ; Jacob later traveled to Michigan to ransom and rescue his sister. Some time later he settled briefly in PA before settling in Butler County, Ohio in 1802. Jacob Lewis' mother was Ann Doty. The Butler County pioneer Daniel Doty [1765-1848] was probably either her nephew or cousin. Dr. Jacob Lewis married, in 1796, Mrs. Deborah Randolph, widow of Samuel; she died in 1811. A Thomas Lewis witnessed a land purchase in Butler County in 1816 of land formerly owned by Samuel Randolph, which was inherited by Drake Randolph and purchased by Jacob Lewis. On the 1820 Census for Wayne Township, Butler County, Thomas Lewis is listed: 110001 02001, which matches the ages and genders of his four children. From examining the property records of his neighbors, I ascertained that Thomas lived in either section 24 or 25 T 3, R 3 of Wayne Township. He did not purchase property until 1829, when he entered a land grant in Sheffield Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. Next door in Wayne Township was Henry Kumler, Sr., a United Brethren bishop, who officiated at the 1827 wedding of Thomas and Anna Lewis' daughter Jane Lewis to Jacob Mattix. Seven families away on the census is Jacob Bake, who was the Justice of the Peace who presided at the marriage of Elizabeth Lewis, the older daughter, to George Miller in 1823. Families in sections 22-36, include these from New Jersey: Cornelison, Mattix, Bake, Smith, Sherrod, Drake, Hunt, Pierce, and these from Pennsylvania: Campbell, Iliff, Kumbler, Cooper, Walter. Thomas Lewis was born in PA and his wife Anna was born in NJ. Still puzzled about their family lines, though it appears that Jacob Lewis and Thomas Lewis are relatives. jeanne bedwell