Lewis Craig Humphrey

Lewis Craig Humphrey (1875–1927) was an American Kentucky newspaper editor who began his journalistic career as a reporter at the Louisville daily newspaper, the

Humphrey was the son of Judge Edward William Cornelius Humphrey (1844–1917) and Jessamine Barkley (1846–1905).^{[citation needed]} He attended public school in Louisville and graduated from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, in 1896.^[2]

Political activity

Humphrey was active in politics with the

Humphrey was editor of The Cento, the Centre College newspaper.[6] After his tenure at the

Humphrey married Eleanor Silliman Belknap (1876–1964),[9] the eldest daughter of William Richardson Belknap, on December 19, 1904, at Lincliff, the home of the bride's parents.^[10]

In 1914, he and his wife commissioned the design by Gray and Wischmeyer of their home in The Highlands. The house, built by the Alfred Struck Company is known as the Humphrey-McMeekin House and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.^[11] The couple had two daughters and two sons.^{[citation needed]}

Humphrey contracted cancer and died on February 3, 1927.^[12][1][13] He was buried at Louisville's Cave Hill Cemetery.

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