Lewis Preston Summers

Background

Summers, Lewis Preston was born on November 2, 1868 in Abingdon, Virginia, United States. Son of John Calhoun and Nannie Montgomery (Preston) Summers.

Education

Graduate Wytheville Male Academy, 1886. Bachelor of Laws, University of Virginia, 1893 (common and statute law), Tulane, 1895 (civil law).

Career

Postmaster, Abingdon, 1890-1894. Began practice at Abindon, 1895. Commonwealth attorney, 1903.

Collector internal revenue, Western District of Virginia, 1905-1913.

United States district attorney same district, by appointment of President Harding, June 6, 1922.

Achievements

• Lewis Preston Summers has been listed as a reputable lawyer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• Other Work

  • Author: History of Southwest Virginia and Washington County, 1903. Annals of Southwest Virginia.

Membership

Member Virginia State Bar Association.

Connections

Married Katharine Barbee, February 24, 1897. Children: Gay White, Jane Douglas, Lewis Preston, Katharine Barbee, John Grant, Andrew Rowan, Olvia Wirt.