 Between 1790 and 1798, Major Lewis had lived in Harrisburg, where he took up printing and published the first Harrisburg newspaper, "The Advertiser", which was then sold to John Wyeth, who renamed it "The Oracle of Dauphin".While living in Harrisburg, Lewis also published the popular poem, "St. Clair's Defeat," which described the defeat of Arthur St. Clair by the tribes of the Western Confederacy during the Battle of the Wabash.Lewisberry was not incorporated until 1832, fifty years later, and the first census figures of 1840 show a population of 220.