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JEWELL was a member of the Boston municipal council, 1851-52; was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature, 1861-71, and speaker four terms. He was a candidate for governor in 1871, but withdraw in favor of W. B. Washburn for the purpose of defeating Gen. B. F. Butler. He was judge of the court of commissioners of Alabama claims, 1875-77. Dartmouth college conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1875. He dieil ill Boston, Mass., Dec. 8, 1881.

JEWELL, Marshall, cabinet officer, was born in Winchester. N.H., Oct. 20, 1825; son of Pliny Jewell, a tanner and currier, who in 1845 removed to Hartford. Conn., and established a leather-belting business; and a descendant of

Thomas Jewell, who emigrated from England in 1639, having received a grant of land at North Wollaston, Massachusetts Bay colony. Marshall Jewell obtained a common school education, entered his father's tannery and learned the trade, the fourth generation to follow that vocation. He studied electricity as applied to telegraphy in Boston, Mass., and was telegraph operator at Rochester, N.Y., Akron, Ohio, Columbia, Tenn., and Jackson, Miss., and in 1848 he superintended the construction of telegraph lines between Louisville and New Orleans. He was general superintendent of the New York and Boston telegraph lines in 1849, and was recalled to Hartford in 1850 to become a partner in the belting factory, and upon his father's death he became head of the firm. He was married in 1852 to Esther, daughter of William Dickinson, of Newburgh, N.Y. He visited Europe in 1859 and made a careful inspection of the tanneries in England and France, and by purchasing quantities of leather before the outbreak of the civil war he greatly increased the importance of his firm. He was a Republican candidate for state senator in 1808, and the same year was a candidate for governor of Connecticut, being defeated by James E. English. He was elected in 1869 for a term of one year, and in 1870 was again defeated by Englisli. He was elected in 1871, and re-elected in 1872. During his administration the erection of the new state liouse at Hartford was begun. He was appointed U.S. minister to Russia in 1873, and negotiated with the Russian government a trade-mark treaty, carrying it to completion. Through his investigations while in Russia, aided by his knowledge of tanning leather, the process of tanning what was known as Russia leather, which process had been a secret, was introduced into the United States. He was recalled in 1874 and made postmaster-general in the cabinet of President Grant. He supported Benjamin H. Bristow, secretaiyof the treasury, in his prosecution of the whisky ring. He also detected the Star Route irregularities and the overthrow of the combination was largely due to him. When Bristow resigned from President Grant's cabinet, Mr. Jewell also resigned, returning to Hartford, where he devoted himself to his tanning interests. He was a candidate before the Republican caucus for U.S. senator in 1876, but was defeated by two votes; was chairman of the Republican national committee and conducted the campaign resulting in the election of James A. Garfield in 1882. He died in Hartford. Conn.. Feb 10. 1883.

JEWELL, Theodore Frelinghuysen, naval officer, was born at Georgetown, D. C, Aug. 5, 1844; son of Thomas and Eleanor (Spencer) Jewell, grandson of William and Elizabeth (Köch- Jewell, and a descendant of George

Jewell, who settled at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, about 1680. He was appointed acting midshipman from Virginia, and was graduated from the U.S. naval academy in November, 1864. He commanded a naval battery of field howitzers in defence of Washington in the civil war in June and July of 1863; was commissioned ensign, Nov. 1, 1866; master, Dec. 1, 1866; lieutenant. March 12, 1868; lieutenant-commander, March 20, 1869; commander, Jan. 26, 1885; captain. Feb. 1, 1898. He served on all the foreign stations, and was in command of the naval torpedo station, Newport, R. I., 1890-93; .superintendent of the naval gun factory at Washington navy yard, 1893-96; light- house inspector of the 10th district, 1896-98; commanded the U.S. protected cruiser Minneapolis in the Spanish-American war on scouting service in the West Indies, 1898: was given command of the Brooklyn, May 11, 1899, and served in the Philippine Islands. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and companion in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. He is the author of several pamphlets.