1514832422William A. Lewis18221984WilliamLewishttps://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/21452/fullW.A. Lewis joined his brother Otto’s pottery around 1852. According to William C. Ketchum and Warren F. Broderick “William A Lewis operated the Galesville pottery alone from 1858 until 1860, when the Census taken that year lists him as a ‘farm laborer’ living in Greenwich. A number of blue-decorated stoneware vessels exist bearing the mark ‘WALEWIS/GALESVILLE’; many of them have attractive, sometimes elaborate floral decorations. William A. Lewis appears to have given up the potter's trade and worked the remainder of his life as a farmer…At some time Frederick A. Gale (1810–1882) become directly involved in the Galesville pottery's management, although he was not a potter by trade. [Frederick Gale was painted by Ammi Phillips at the age of four or five. The portrait is considered one of the masterpieces of American folk portraiture.](1822–1984)William A. Lewis