MRS. EFFIE M. LEWIS, was approximately five years old when her mother died. She went to live with her paternal grandparents, Elisha and Rebecca Weaver Mahoney, on their farm midway between Elkton and Northeast, in Cecil county, Maryland, on the line of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad, for three years after the death of her mother. When her father married the second time, he took Effie to his home in Conshohocken, and she attended the public schools there until she graduated in 1884. During 1884 and 1885 she taught as a substitute in the Lower Merion high school at Ardmore, the Mount Pleasant school, in Lower Merion, and in the Conshohocken public schools.
In August 1885, she was elected to the advanced secondary department in the Conshohocken schools. On April 4, 1886, Miss Mahoney became the wife of Harry J. Lewis, eldest son of John Craig and Harriet (Gilbert) Lewis of Conshohocken.
Until the 1889 death of Harry Lewis, Effie Lewis long held a position in the office of the clerk of the orphans' court, and was the first woman deputized to act in an official position, in the courthouse at Norristown. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Lewis and her three children boarded with her aunt, Lydia Peterson Steele, on Seventh Avenue, Conshohocken.
Mrs. Lewis took a position with the J. Ellwood Lee Surgical Company of Conshohocken as forelady. Afterwards she did Spanish translating for the firm. She was the first to attempt the translation of their large catalogue into the Spanish language, and completed the greater part of that work before leaving the employ of the company.
She became a student at the Schissler Business College in April 1896 and graduated from this institution and became one of the faculty, having charge of the typewriting department. In June 1897, she was offered and accepted a position as typewriter and stenographer in the office of William P. Young, clerk of the court of Montgomery County. She retained this position until January 1900, when Major Isaac N. Cooke, the newly elected clerk of the courts, appointed Mrs. Lewes his second deputy. Hon. William P. Solly, upon receiving his appointment as president judge of the orphans' court in 1901, approved the appointment of Mrs. Lewis as deputy clerk of the orphans` court, qualifying her as such on June 12th of that year. At the expiration of Major Cooke`s term as clerk, she was retained by the Register of Wills and Clerk of the Orphans` Court, Henry A. Groff, as typewriter.
--from Biographical Annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 1904
In August 1885, she was elected to the advanced secondary department in the Conshohocken schools. On April 4, 1886, Miss Mahoney became the wife of Harry J. Lewis, eldest son of John Craig and Harriet (Gilbert) Lewis of Conshohocken.
Until the 1889 death of Harry Lewis, Effie Lewis long held a position in the office of the clerk of the orphans' court, and was the first woman deputized to act in an official position, in the courthouse at Norristown. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Lewis and her three children boarded with her aunt, Lydia Peterson Steele, on Seventh Avenue, Conshohocken.
Mrs. Lewis took a position with the J. Ellwood Lee Surgical Company of Conshohocken as forelady. Afterwards she did Spanish translating for the firm. She was the first to attempt the translation of their large catalogue into the Spanish language, and completed the greater part of that work before leaving the employ of the company.
She became a student at the Schissler Business College in April 1896 and graduated from this institution and became one of the faculty, having charge of the typewriting department. In June 1897, she was offered and accepted a position as typewriter and stenographer in the office of William P. Young, clerk of the court of Montgomery County. She retained this position until January 1900, when Major Isaac N. Cooke, the newly elected clerk of the courts, appointed Mrs. Lewes his second deputy. Hon. William P. Solly, upon receiving his appointment as president judge of the orphans' court in 1901, approved the appointment of Mrs. Lewis as deputy clerk of the orphans` court, qualifying her as such on June 12th of that year. At the expiration of Major Cooke`s term as clerk, she was retained by the Register of Wills and Clerk of the Orphans` Court, Henry A. Groff, as typewriter.
--from Biographical Annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 1904
MRS. EFFIE M. LEWIS, was approximately five years old when her mother died. She went to live with her paternal grandparents, Elisha and Rebecca Weaver Mahoney, on their farm midway between Elkton and Northeast, in Cecil county, Maryland, on the line of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad, for three years after the death of her mother. When her father married the second time, he took Effie to his home in Conshohocken, and she attended the public schools there until she graduated in 1884. During 1884 and 1885 she taught as a substitute in the Lower Merion high school at Ardmore, the Mount Pleasant school, in Lower Merion, and in the Conshohocken public schools.
In August 1885, she was elected to the advanced secondary department in the Conshohocken schools. On April 4, 1886, Miss Mahoney became the wife of Harry J. Lewis, eldest son of John Craig and Harriet (Gilbert) Lewis of Conshohocken.
Until the 1889 death of Harry Lewis, Effie Lewis long held a position in the office of the clerk of the orphans' court, and was the first woman deputized to act in an official position, in the courthouse at Norristown. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Lewis and her three children boarded with her aunt, Lydia Peterson Steele, on Seventh Avenue, Conshohocken.
Mrs. Lewis took a position with the J. Ellwood Lee Surgical Company of Conshohocken as forelady. Afterwards she did Spanish translating for the firm. She was the first to attempt the translation of their large catalogue into the Spanish language, and completed the greater part of that work before leaving the employ of the company.
She became a student at the Schissler Business College in April 1896 and graduated from this institution and became one of the faculty, having charge of the typewriting department. In June 1897, she was offered and accepted a position as typewriter and stenographer in the office of William P. Young, clerk of the court of Montgomery County. She retained this position until January 1900, when Major Isaac N. Cooke, the newly elected clerk of the courts, appointed Mrs. Lewes his second deputy. Hon. William P. Solly, upon receiving his appointment as president judge of the orphans' court in 1901, approved the appointment of Mrs. Lewis as deputy clerk of the orphans` court, qualifying her as such on June 12th of that year. At the expiration of Major Cooke`s term as clerk, she was retained by the Register of Wills and Clerk of the Orphans` Court, Henry A. Groff, as typewriter.
--from Biographical Annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 1904
In August 1885, she was elected to the advanced secondary department in the Conshohocken schools. On April 4, 1886, Miss Mahoney became the wife of Harry J. Lewis, eldest son of John Craig and Harriet (Gilbert) Lewis of Conshohocken.
Until the 1889 death of Harry Lewis, Effie Lewis long held a position in the office of the clerk of the orphans' court, and was the first woman deputized to act in an official position, in the courthouse at Norristown. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Lewis and her three children boarded with her aunt, Lydia Peterson Steele, on Seventh Avenue, Conshohocken.
Mrs. Lewis took a position with the J. Ellwood Lee Surgical Company of Conshohocken as forelady. Afterwards she did Spanish translating for the firm. She was the first to attempt the translation of their large catalogue into the Spanish language, and completed the greater part of that work before leaving the employ of the company.
She became a student at the Schissler Business College in April 1896 and graduated from this institution and became one of the faculty, having charge of the typewriting department. In June 1897, she was offered and accepted a position as typewriter and stenographer in the office of William P. Young, clerk of the court of Montgomery County. She retained this position until January 1900, when Major Isaac N. Cooke, the newly elected clerk of the courts, appointed Mrs. Lewes his second deputy. Hon. William P. Solly, upon receiving his appointment as president judge of the orphans' court in 1901, approved the appointment of Mrs. Lewis as deputy clerk of the orphans` court, qualifying her as such on June 12th of that year. At the expiration of Major Cooke`s term as clerk, she was retained by the Register of Wills and Clerk of the Orphans` Court, Henry A. Groff, as typewriter.
--from Biographical Annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 1904
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