Hunt, Herbert and Floyd C. Kaylor. Washington: West of the Cascades. Vol. II. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1917. p. 589-590. LEWIS A. MARKS: Lewis A. Marks, manager of St. Helens Garage, is a well known business man of Chehalis, where he has carried on operations for the past four years. He was born on a farm near Brooklyn, Poweshick county, Iowa, May 1, 1880, and is a son of L. J. and Sarah C. (Morrison) Marks, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio respectively. By occupation the father was a farmer. In the family were five children, three sons and two daughters, of whom Lewis A. is the oldest. Reared on the home farm in Iowa, Lewis A. Marks received his early education in the country schools of the neighborhood and later attended the high school of Brooklyn. On starting out in life for himself he served an apprenticeship in the shops of the Davey Manufacturing Company at Mason City, Iowa, making sash and doors, and he remained with that concern for three years. He continued in the same business at different places for six years and was later engaged in the sawmill filing business at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. During all this time he was becoming familiar with various kinds of mechanical work and had acquired an excellent knowledge of machinery. For three and a half years he was in the employ of M. D. Wright of Coeur d'Alene, driving an automobile, and during that time gained a good knowledge of the automobile business which has been of great assistance to him since coming to Washington. It was in December, 1912 that Mr. Marks arrived in Chehalis, and forming a partnership with Thomas E. Docherty purchased the St. Helens Garage on Market street. He has since managed the business with remarkable success and besides handling the well known Reo and Studebaker cars he carries of full line of automobile accessories and has a well equipped repair department. He not only does general repairing but has a storage battery and makes electrical work a specialty. During the busy season the company employ as many as six mechanics and their trade extends all over Lewis county. Their garage is fifty by one hundred and ten feet in dimensions, making a floor space of fifty-five hundred square feet for parking cars and for their stock in trade. They handle a large line of tires for any machine, inner tubes, tools and in fact everything in the automobile line. In 1907 Mr. Marks was married in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, to Miss Della Bousley, a daughter of George Bousley, a farmer of Wisconsin, and they now have a little son, George Jackson, aged two years. Mr. Marks is a republican in politics but is very liberal in his view and accords to others their right of opinion. Fraternally he is a Royal Arch Mason and also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Commercial Club of Chehalis. He is one of the representative business men of the city and is held in high esteem by all who know him. Marks Morrison Wright Docherty Bousley = Poweshick-IA>Kootenai-ID>Lewis-WA