Lewis, Melvin B.

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Melvin Lewis was born in 1917 on a ranch near Mt. Shasta, Calif. He worked as a private gamekeeper, a truck driver, a laborer with the Civilian Conservation Corps, a fire fighter for the California State Forestry Service, and as an Army Air Corps pilot in the Pacific during World War II. Following the war, he was a camera salesman for Standard Optical in Utah and Idaho before becoming an engineer for Ingersoll Rand from 1947 to 1985.

From the description of The Melvin E. Lewis papers. 1970-2004. (University of Utah). WorldCat record id: 60843280

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creatorOf Lewis, Mel,. Mel Lewis photograph collection, ca.1900s-1990s. Utah Division of State History, Utah Historical Society
creatorOf Lewis, Melvin E. The Melvin E. Lewis papers. 1970-2004. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library
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