About Lehigh

W. Deming Lewis

(1964-1982)

W. Deming Lewis became president after a distinguished career as a space engineer and research administrator. Lewis came from a family that traces its American roots to William Lewis, an Englishman who settled in Massachusetts in 1640. His great-grandfather and grandfather were presidents of the Lewis Manufacturing Co., a textile firm in Walpole, Mass. His father owned Riverside Mills in Augusta, Ga.