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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. James Andrew Lewis
Mr. James Andrew Lewis , F.E.I.S., sometime of “Milton,” Portobello, was well known as a teacher at Livingstone, Linlithgowshire, Scotland, before coming to Port Chalmers with his wife and family by the ship “Silistria,” in 1862. Soon after his arrival he was appointed headmaster of the North East Harbour school, where he taught with much success until 1865, when he removed to his farm at Milton, Portobello, where his two sons still carry on farming. Mr. Lewis died at his residence in 1869, at the age of fifty-seven, leaving three sons and six daughters. His wife died in 1881, at the age of seventy-one.