Charlton Thomas Lewis (February 25, 1834 – May 26, 1904) was a
United States lawyer
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,
author and
lexicographer, who is particularly remembered as a compiler of several Latin–English dictionaries.
Biography
Lewis was born in
West Chester, Pennsylvania
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, to Joseph J. and Mary (Miner) Lewis. He graduated from
Yale University in 1853. After further studying with a view to entering the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he served as professor at the State Normal University at
Bloomington, Illinois
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, 1856–57, and from 1858 to 1861 was professor of Greek at Methodist-affiliated
Troy University (New York)
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.
In 1863-64 he was a United States deputy commissioner of internal revenue.
He began the practice of law in New York City in 1865. For a year in 1870-1871 he was the managing editor of the New York ''
Evening Post
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'' newspaper.
In 1871 he returned to law practice, where he specialized in insurance law and was longstanding law counsel for a large insurance company in New York city.
During 1898-99, he was a lecturer on insurance at
Harvard
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,
Columbia
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and
Cornell universities.
He was also president of the Prison Association of New York and of the State Charities Aid Association of New Jersey.
He married Nancy D. McKeen in 1861. He remarried to Margaret P. Sherrard in 1885.
He died in
, as a result of
cerebrospinal meningitis.
Works
Major published works:
* ''Gnomon of the New Testament'', translated from the German of
Bengel (1861)
* ''A History of Germany, from the earliest times'' (1870)
* ''
A Latin Dictionary'', in collaboration with
Charles Short
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(1879)
(also known as ''Harper's Latin Dictionary'')
* ''Latin Dictionary for Schools'' (1889)
* ''An Elementary Latin Dictionary'' (1890)
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1834 births
1904 deaths
American male non-fiction writers
American editors
Yale University alumni
Illinois State University faculty
Harvard University faculty
Columbia University faculty
Cornell University faculty
People from West Chester, Pennsylvania
Writers from Pennsylvania
German–English translators
American lexicographers
American classical scholars
19th-century American translators
19th-century American male writers
19th-century lexicographers