Howell Lewis
(1771-1822)
BIRTH
1771
PLACE
Culpeper, Virginia
NAME
William Howell Lewis
DEATH
1822
PLACE
Kanawha, Virginia, United States
FAMILY
BROTHER
Augustine Washington Sr.
(1694-1743)
SISTER
Mary Ball Washington
(1709-1789)
BROTHER
Lawrence Lewis
(1767-1839)
BROTHER
Robert Lewis
(1769-1829)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Howell Lewis was born in Virginia in 1771, a son of Fielding Lewis and Betty Washington, and nephew of George Washington. He served as the president’s personal secretary in 1792–1793, then managed Mount Vernon until April 1794. After resigning for financial reasons, he managed his own landholdings in Virginia and what became West Virginia. He had inherited land and enslaved people from his father as a child. He died in 1822; sources also give his name as William Howell Lewis.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of William Howell Lewis, Sr’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for William Howell Lewis, Sr is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
William Howell Lewis Sr. died in 1822, in Kanawha, Virginia, United States. Howell Lewis was born in Virginia in 1771, a son of Fielding Lewis and Betty Washington, and nephew of George Washington. He served as the president’s personal secretary in 1792–1793, then managed Mount Vernon until April 1794. After resigning for financial reasons, he managed his own landholdings in Virginia and what became West Virginia. He had inherited land and enslaved people from his father as a child. He died in 1822; sources also give his name as William Howell Lewis. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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