Lewis was discharged from White Hall 17 Jan 1871 his sixteenth birthday, he was therefore a sixteener.
References
↑ 1.01.1 Lewis Bair, in Pennsylvania's Soldiers' Orphan Schools Page #354, 1877.
List of pupils attending the school including name, date of birth, date of transfer and/or discharge, reason for discharge (at age 16 or on order), post office when at home and remarks concerning education, occupation, trade or skill.
↑ Lewis Bair, in Certificate of Death, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Health, Bureau of Vital File No. 62522, 1926.
Name of deceased, sex, race, marital status, date of death, date of birth, age, occupation. birthplace, name of father and mother and their birth places, cause of death, cemetery.