The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 313 ALLAN GRANT LEWIS. Allan Grant Lewis is numbered among the pioneer settlers on the Cowiche and is today the owner of one hundred and twenty acres of land, of which he has placed twenty acres under a high state of cultivation. Almost his entire life has been passed in this section of the state, for he was a lad of but eight years when brought to Yakima county. His birth occurred in Illinois, September 27, 1863, his parents being Andrew J. and Isabel L. (Parker) Lewis, the former a native of Indianapolis, while the latter was also born in Indiana. In 1864 the parents crossed the plains to Clarke county, Washington, and took up a homestead upon which they resided until 1871, when they removed to Yakima county, where the father purchased railway land on the Cowiche, after living on the Ahtanum for three years. They were among the first settlers there and Mr. Lewis and B. F. Parker built the Cowiche ditch, also known as the Dolly Varden ditch. This was the first on the north side of the Cowiche. Mr. Lewis owned three-quarters of a section of land and for a considerable period was actively identified with the agricultural interests of the district but passed away on the 11th of January, 1914. His widow survives and now makes her home with her son, Allan G., at the age of eighty-one years. Allan Grant Lewis acquired a public school education. He has lived continuously in the northwest from the age of one year and the spirit of western enterprise and progress finds exemplification in his career. He carried on ranching in connection with his father and at the age of twenty-one years took up a homestead on the Cowiche. Later he bought thirty-nine acres and sold part of the old place. He is today the owner of one hundred and twenty acres in all, of which he has cultivated twenty acres, transforming it into a highly productive tract. In fact he has made the barren region, which in early days produced nothing but sagebrush, bloom and blossom as the rose. His labors have indeed wrought splendid results and as one of the early pioneer settlers here he has contributed in marked measure to the development and upbuilding of the district in which he lives. On the 9th of November, 1905, Mr. Lewis was married to Miss Bertha V. Hay, who was born in Kansas, a daughter of Jacob Hay, one of the early settlers of Washington, who arrived in the Yakima valley at an early day. To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis have been born seven children: Paul B.; Naomi and Nora, twins; Velma; Abraham Grant; Emma; and Jacob Jackson. In his political views Mr. Lewis is a republican and keeps well informed on the questions and the issues of the day. He has always been a deep student of the bible, being wonderfully well posted upon this holy volume. He and his wife are active and earnest members of the Church of God. Through his close study he has found that the bible is divided into 40's, 12's, 7’s and 3's, these numbers running all through. These numbers are there to show that God is the author of the bible, for no human could have interluded these numbers through the bible in their harmony, sequence and frequency. Mr. Lewis is one of the pioneer settlers of the Cowiche, a well known, genial old-timer whose friends are legion and who is everywhere spoken of in terms of the highest regard. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.