A Woman to Know: Ida Lewis

None but a donkey would consider it 'unfeminine' to save lives. — Ida Lewis

(image via Library of Congress)

Ida Lewis grew up in the Lime Rock Lighthouse, just outside Newport, Rhode Island. There, under the care of her father, Captain Hosea Lewis, she learned to swim in the open ocean, row her siblings across the water to school and take care of the gia…