Charlton Thomas Lewis

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1834|02|25}}

| birth_place = West Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1904|05|26|1834|02|25}}

| death_place = Morristown, New Jersey, U.S.

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{{Marriage|Nancy D. McKeen|1861}}
{{Marriage|Margaret P. Sherrard|1885}}

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| education = Yale University

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| parents = Joseph J. Lewis (father)

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Charlton Thomas Lewis (February 25, 1834 – May 26, 1904) was an American lawyer, writer, and lexicographer, who is particularly remembered as a compiler of several Latin–English dictionaries.{{cite book|author1=Ward W. Briggs|author2=American Philological Association|title=Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k8-uLxAnngUC&pg=PA360|date=1 January 1994|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-24560-2|pages=360–}}

Biography

Lewis was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, to Joseph J. Lewis 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, 1856–57, and from 1858 to 1861 was professor of Greek at Methodist-affiliated Troy University (New York).{{cite book |title=A Short History of Classical Scholarship |year=1915 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yjI9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA427 |publisher=CUP Archive |pages=427– |id=GGKEY:HW4CZHA5A47 |via=Google Books}}{{cite book |author=Yale University |author-link=Yale University |title=Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University |url=https://archive.org/stream/1900t10obituary00yaleuoft#page/324/mode/1up |year=1910 |publisher=The University |pages=324–326 |via=Internet Archive}}

In 1863-64 he was a United States deputy commissioner of internal revenue.{{sfn|Rines|1920}} He began the practice of law in New York City in 1865. For a year in 1870–71, he served as the managing editor of the New York Evening Post 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, Columbia 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 married Margaret P. Sherrard in 1885.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wW9GAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA62 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=XI |publisher=James T. White & Company |page=62 |year=1909 |access-date=2021-01-05 |via=Google Books}}

He died in Morristown, New Jersey, as a result of cerebrospinal meningitis.{{sfn|Rines|1920}}{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67014592/dr-charlton-t-lewis/ |title=Dr. Charlton T. Lewis |newspaper=The New York Times |location=Morristown, New Jersey |page=9 |date=27 May 1904 |access-date=2021-01-05 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Works

Major published works:{{sfn|Rines|1920}}

Gnomon of the New Testament, translated from the German of Bengel (1861)
A History of Germany, from the Earliest Times (1870){{cite book|author1=Charlton Thomas Lewis|author2=Dr. David Müller|title=A History of Germany, from the Earliest Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n6oYAAAAYAAJ|year=1890|publisher=Harper & Brothers}}
A Latin Dictionary, in collaboration with Charles Short (1879){{cite web | url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059 | title=Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, A }} (also known as Harper's Latin Dictionary)
Latin Dictionary for Schools (1889){{cite book|author=Charlton Thomas Lewis|title=A Latin Dictionary for Schools|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XJBBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP15|year=1889|publisher=Harper & Brothers|pages=15–}}
An Elementary Latin Dictionary (1890){{cite book|author=Charlton Thomas Lewis|title=An Elementary Latin Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M1dFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7|year=1915|publisher=American Book Company|pages=7–}}