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WILLIAM MILLS LEWIS, attorney in Vidalia, is a native of the state of Georgia, born in Warren county on November 7, 1869. He is the son of Nathan Augustus and Sicily (Rogers) Lewis, the former of Green county and the latter of Warren county. Mr. Lewis lived in Green county until 1859, at which time his family moved to Alabama, and there he attended the Eastern Alabama Male College, from which institution he was graduted in June, 1861. Immediately thereafter he joined the Fifty-first Alabama regiment and was with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston until the close of the war. Returning then to Georgia he was engaged for some time in teaching school in Warren county. It was there he met the girl who later became his wife and the mother of William Mills Lewis of this personal review. He was one of the three children of his parents, the others being Marvin Lewis, a manufacturer of Coca Cola, in Dothan, Alabama, and Mariana, wife of Henry R. Hall of Warren county. The son, William, attended school in Warrenton, and was duly graduated from the high school of that place. He thereafter engaged in farming until he was twenty-one, when he took a position as clerk and continued in that work for two years. Later he taught school in Jefferson county for a year and the same length of time in Warren county, following which he returned to his farming again and was thus occupied for another term of two years. He then decided to study law, with a view to entering the profession, and for nine months was a student under E. P. Davis of Warrenton, after which he successfully passed his examinations and was admitted to the bar. He initiated the active practice of his profession in Milledgeville, Baldwin county, and after two years in that place he located at Vidalia, and here he enjoys an ever increasing clientage, and is regarded as one of the important citizens of the city. He was judge of the city court of Mt. Vernon in 1901 and 1902 and solicitor of the city court in 1907 and 1908, and a member of the board of commissioners of roads and revenues of Montgomery county.

On January 16, 1898, Mr. Lewis was married to Miss Sallie Meadows, the daughter of S. B. Meadows, mayor of Vidalia, and the representative of Toombs County in the legislature in 1909-10, Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, Mattele, born October 17, 1899, and Urma, born April 1, 1902.

Mr. Lewis is a member of the Knights of Pythias, but is not further affiliated with any fraternal organization. Mrs. Lewis is a member of the Baptist church.

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