An ancestral cousin of mine claims to be the youngest City Councilman in Cleveland. Does anyone know anything about councilmen and if Oscar was even on the City Council? Eliz One of my cousins has the below on his tree http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=060806&id=I0289 Found Retirement Too Strenuous, So Oscar Still Runs Shop Can't Sell His "Town Hall" In Election Year By Scotty McLeod About 1940 HOPKINTON—<snip> Born in Cleveland on "ground Hog Day, 1854," Mr. Lewis came to Delaware County with his parents two years later. The family settled on a farm purchased from the government between Hopkinton and Delhi in the Upper Buck Creek neighborhood. He attended Hopkinton schools until 1870 when the family moved back to Cleveland. SOLD HORSE TO JOHN D. He was in the real estate business, ran a pool hall and liquor business, a printing business, found time to serve on the city council (Mr. Lewis claims he at 27, was the youngest councilman Cleveland ever had) and was a friend of a man named John D. Rockefeller. During the period that Rockefeller was acquiring his Pennsylvania oil properties, Mr. Lewis sold him a black mare, a standardbred trotter. <snip