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Rh the former shown by his architecture in exterior decoration, and by his household embellishments.

Colonel Jewell affiliates with the Congregationalists, but the Sabbath with him is a day of rest. His first wife was Mary A. Grover, daughter of Ephraim Grover, of Newton, Mass., to whom he was married in August, 1860. She died October 16, 1862. He was again married, May 31, 1865, to Ella Louise Sumner, daughter of Lewis Sumner, of Needham, Mass., and a near relative of the late Senator Charles Sumner. Mr. Jewell has kept out of politics, but is a good Republican, and should he be the standard bearer of the party in any future contest, he would probably lead its forces to victory.

A young friend of mine, writing from the North of Scotland in 1881, thus describes his condition and feelings: "I have sometimes taken great courage from your personal history, but as often and sontantly have my lowly circumstances in life suggested sadly to me the impossibility to do anything else than to struggle on with inexorable poverty. But, while thus depressed, I have still the indescribable cosolationconsolation [sic] of pouring forth my sorrows in verse; some specimens of which I send you. And, viewing the matter from where I now stand, and with my confessed inexperience in the world's ways, I hardly think I would voluntarily exchange my "Muse" for the cold glitter of brainless riches. I would like enough, that is all."