Leon Lewis

Julius Warren Lewis (April 8, 1833 – October 28, 1920) was an American writer of popular fiction. He used the name Leon Lewis and wrote under that name among others. and Patty Bishop. At the age of 21, he was living in Massachusetts and considered himself an author. He began his writing career in Boston, which led him to become editor of the flash paper Life in Boston. In 1852, Lewis edited Northern Light, a literary journal published by A. C. Currier.

Lewis received $300 from Enoch Train to start a Know Nothing paper in New York City. The paper failed and Lewis returned to Boston, where he asked for Train's assistance in starting an anti-Know Nothing paper. Train refused to give Lewis any more money and Lewis began sending threatening letters to Train. On January 23, 1885, Lewis went to Train's Dorchester home, informed him that he was armed with a Bowie knife and a revolver, and demanded money from him. Train grabbed Lewis and after a violent struggle, threw him down his front steps and tied him with bed-chord.

In 1860 Lewis married Harriet Newell O'Brien (1841–1878) of Penn Yan, New York.

Lewis was a summer guest sometime in the 1870s at a boarding house owned by Thomas Nickerson. He was a retired sailor who had survived the sinking of the whaleship Essex as a cabin boy. and Helen Elizabeth O'Brien (1843 – 1906), and married her in Brazil. During the 1880s he wrote boys' stories in England. Their son Leon Lewis (15 March 1885 in Greenport, Long Island, New York – 26 February 1976 in Farmington Hills, Michigan) lived in New Hartford most of his life, spending his final years with his daughter Leona L. Lewis and her husband Nicholas Pedersen in Michigan.

By 1910, Lewis was living with his sister Sara in New Hartford, Connecticut. Lewis and Julia were divorced in 1913. Living with his sister in Bakersville, Connecticut, he died October 28, 1920, in a Winsted, Connecticut, hospital.