Abraham Lincoln (A.L.) Lewis was a renowned businessman and philanthropist who became Florida's first African-American millionaire. He also established American Beach, a vacation spot for African Americans during the Jim Crow segregation era.

Lewis was born in 1865 in Madison County, Florida. In 1876, he moved with his family to Jacksonville, Florida, where he worked at a sawmill and lumberyard while pursuing his education. He joined the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1884 and was a member of a Masonic Order, helping to build the Masonic Temple of Greater Jacksonville in the early 1900s.

In 1901, he helped organize the company that became known as the Afro-American Life Insurance Company and held a number of executive positions there, including president and chairman of the Board. He also served on the Board of Trustees of Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Florida, for more than 20 years.

Lewis died on March 10, 1947, at his home in Jacksonville.