John E. Lewis was a New York resident who wrote in his diaries every day for seventy-seven years and captured life in New York during the era.
Mr. Lewis began writing his diaries on January 1, 1880, as a nineteen-year old young man, and continued to write until his eyesight was too poor to continue, at age 96. [New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Blog]
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