From the linked story: "During his college days in Kansas, Lewis had been a noted bike racer and a member of the Wichita Bicycle Club. After heading to Chicago to work as a ticket seller at the 1893 Columbian Exposition, he eventually formed a business partnership with an old Wichita chum, James Mead, in the sale of mail order bicycles."

So much around here came out of that 1893 Columbian Exposition. Great to learn another little piece of bike history was related to the Exposition.