2025-2026 Friends of Lewis Library dues are now payable: $5 for individual or $10 for family. Additional donations are also accepted to help fund our next projects which include replacing the heating and cooling systems in the historic upstairs and restoring the south entrance grand staircase. Activities planned for this year will be a Putt Putt Golf fundraiser to be held in January, 2026 at the Glasgow YMCA assisting the Library Board. Also the “Glasgow-The Way It Was” books are for sale for $10 at the library and some downtown businesses.
You can still come to see the three George Caleb Bingham prints now displayed in the first-floor library space. Lewis Library is one of the stops on a George Caleb Bingham driving tour. More information can be found at this site on the CLIO app https://theclio.com/tour/2737 . Check out the Lewis Library of Glasgow website, lewislibraryofglasgow.org and our Facebook page, Lewis Library of Glasgow for current news and events.
Dues and donations may be mailed to Cheryl Adams, Friends of Lewis Library Treasurer, 110 Riverview Drive, Glasgow, MO 65254. Or you can drop off your dues at the library. Contact Cheryl at cadams@socket.net if have questions
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"NEW" AT LEWIS LIBRARY OF GLASGOW
Stop by Lewis Library to see the three new George Caleb Bingham prints displayed on the east wall. We acquired the prints as part of a larger effort to create a central Missouri George Caleb Bingham driving tour. But more on that later. The prints were purchased through donations. The frames were also donated. The large print, “Cottage Scenery” is framed with walnut wood, a gift of Ken Groshong of Columbia. The portraits of Judge Henry Lewis and Mrs. Henry Lewis are in antique frames, a gift of Fred Foley.
You should also check out the Henry Lewis Bible and diary-journal recently donated to Lewis Library of Glasgow by William Richard Smith and his sister, Anne Yorkey, of California. The bible was printed in 1819 and Henry’s diary-journal dates to 1831.
Henry Lewis was born in 1782 in Campbell County, VA and his wife, Elizabeth Morton (Woodson) Lewis was born in 1790 in Prince Edward County, VA. They moved to Glasgow in 1819.
These documents are significant to Howard County and specifically Glasgow in that they contain a large variety of information about those early days.
Richard Earickson Lewis contacted Richard Smith and his sister, Anne, and they generously donated these two documents as their roots are also in the early years of Howard County and Glasgow. The two documents were personally delivered to Lewis Library of Glasgow by Richard Lewis’ daughter, Virginia (Lewis) Chole of Lake Wylie, SC.
