Background
Lewis, Marvin Harrison was born on June 16, 1873 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, United States. Son of Review John William and Lucy Blain (Donaldson) Lewis.
Lewis, Marvin Harrison was born on June 16, 1873 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, United States. Son of Review John William and Lucy Blain (Donaldson) Lewis.
Educational public schools, under private tutors and at South. Kentucky College (non-graduate).
1 son, Marvin Arthur. Formerly reporter and editorial writer, Louisville Courier Journal. Founder, 1906, and head of Marvin H. Lewis & Company.
Former member Board of Public Safety, Louisville.
Former chairman of the executive committee "My Old Kentucky Home" and raised funds establishing the Home near Bardstown, Kentucky, as a state shrine. Chairman Four-Minute Men, Louisville, and of Kentucky Speakers’ Bureau, World War.
Former trustee University of Louisville, Louisville Industrial School. Trustee Wakefield Memorial Association.
Member board councillors Saratoga Battlefield Association.
Member board councillors Saratoga Battlefield Association. Member Society Colonial Wars, National Secretary Sons of the American Revolution (president general 1924-1925). Clubs: Pendennis, Conversation (Louisville), Yorktown (Virginia) Country (honorary life).
Writer and speaker on economic and history subjects.
Married Isabel Rodgers, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 14, 1903.