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Note: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume 1, Page 138: Jesse P. Lewis, retired physician and surgeon of Cloverport, is a native of Albemarle County, Va., where he was born January 18, 1818, being the seventh in family of eleven children born to David J. and Martha J. (Baker) Lewis, who were both natives of Virginia, and came to the State of Kentucky in the fall of the year 1819, making their settlement in Breckinridge County, where they lived until their death, which occurred about 1826 from "milk sickness." The subject of this sketch was but seven years of age when he became an orphan. He was then taken and reared by James F. Clarkson with whom he lived until he attained the age of twenty-two years, receiving a very limited education in consequence of poor school facilities in those days. Some time prior to leaving the home of Mr. Clarkson, he went to live with an elder brother, who was a practicing physician in Lexington, Ky., for a time; while there he commenced the study of medicine, and took a full course at the Louisville Medical School; for several years subsequent he was engaged in the practice of his profession in Meade County. About 1844 he returned to Transylvania College, and completed his course, graduating from that institution in the spring of the following year. He then returned to his home in Meade County and resumed the practice, and also farmed in connection. In 1867 he removed to Cloverport, where he has since resided. Some few years anterior he had retired from active practice of medicine. December 27, 1842, he was united in marriage to Elizabeth A. Moorman, by whom he had the following named three children: John, Jesse and Elizabeth, of whom none survive. About the year 1850 his wife died, and August 25, 1852, he was married to Adelia Moorman. To their union five children were born, named as follows: William, Jesse, Adelia, James and an infant unnamed. Dr. Lewis has been peculiarly unfortunate; not a child of the second marriage is living, and his wife died August 24, 1885. Dr. Lewis is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He still retains his bodily and mental vigor, and travels quite extensively. In politics he and has always been an ardent Democrat, and manifests a live interest in the political affairs of the county and community in which he lives, but has never been an office seeker in any sense of the term.
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