On January 23, 1885, Lewis went to Train's Dorchester home, informed him that he was armed with a Bowie knife and a revolver, and demanded money from him.
Train grabbed Lewis and after a violent struggle, threw him down his front steps and tied him with bed-chord.
[10] (The first mate's 1821 account of the disaster, as well as personal contact with the captain, inspired Herman Melville in writing his 1851 novel Moby Dick.)
1865), daughter of disabled Civil War veteran Cyrus Wheelock (1837 – 5 Feb 1918)[12] and Helen Elizabeth O'Brien (1843 – 1906),[13] and married her in Brazil.
[8] Their daughter Harriet Wheelock Lewis was born in London, England, became a teacher in Connecticut and later married Carl Asahel French.
[13][14] Their son Leon Lewis (15 March 1885 in Greenport, Long Island, New York – 26 February 1976 in Farmington Hills, Michigan) lived in New Hartford most of his life, spending his final years with his daughter Leona L. Lewis and her husband Nicholas Pedersen in Michigan.