[4] Lewis was one of four lawyers who successfully represented antislavery defendant Castner Hanway, who had fought with pro-slavery raiders, in trials following the Christiana Riot of 1851.

[2] George W. Roberts, who became a Union Army colonel and died at the Battle of Stones River in 1862, read law with Lewis in 1857.

[5] So did Henry McIntire, a Union Army officer who was elected Chester County District Attorney in 1862.

Fell sent the manuscript to Lewis, who adapted it into a biographical article published in February 1860 in the Chester County Times.

[2] Later that year, Lewis proved instrumental in securing Pennsylvania's delegates for Lincoln at the 1860 Republican National Convention, collaborating with Wayne MacVeagh to arrange for Simon Cameron's delegates to vote for Lincoln after Cameron fell short of the nomination.