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Listen: The World ProgramPortrait of Abraham L. Lewis - Jacksonville, Florida.
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Born in 1865 in Madison County and moved with his family to the East Side of Jacksonville in 1876. Lewis was one of the founding partners of the Afro-American Industrial and Benefit Association, the state?s first chartered black insurance company. In 1919 he became president of Afro-American Life, and in the 1920s began providing mortgages for individual homes. Lewis donated to public and private schools across the country for the education of African-American youth. Abraham Lincoln Lewis died in 1947.
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