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��HARVEY JEWELL.

��r.Y WILLIAM H. HACKE1T.

��Among the men who have gone from New Hampshire to fill prominent positions in other states was the late Harvey Jewell, whose death occurred in Boston, Decembers, 1SS1.

Mr. Jewell came of good stock, and in his whole career of usefulness and prominence proved to he one of the Jewells of which the New Hampshire mother could well be proud. He was born at Winchester, May 26, 1S20, and was the eldest uf ten children.

He was a descendant of Thomas Jewell, who was born in England, and of whom we have the first authentic account in the early pait of 1639. when he received a grant of land at Mount Wollaston. first settled in 1629, and in- corporated as Braintree in 1640, and from which Quincy was set off in 1792.

Thomas Jewell's youngest son was Joseph, who died in Amesbury in 1783. The father of • Harvey was Pliny, of the sixth generation, and was a native of Winchester, and re- moved thence to Hartford, Conn., in 184s.

Mr. Pliny Jewell, beside being an exceedingly able as well as successful business man, was an enthusiast in gen- ealogical matters, and devoted much time, labor and expenditure in the production of a careful collection, printed twenty years since, of the "Jewell Register," which contained a remarkably correct and well classified list of the descendants of Thomas Jewell.

The father of Harvey, though in affluent circumstances in after years, was one of tine substantial men of New Hampshire, who began life with the elements of success, but not ac- companied, at the outset of his busi- ness career, with its results. He was, while a resident of Winchester, known as a leading man of the town ; was prominent in political, business and

��religious affairs, presided as moderator of the town meetings, and in 1839 and in other years, represented the town in the State legislature.

While at Concord, as a representa- tive, he formed acquaintance with the late Ichabod Bartlett, Timothy Upham, and Ichabod Goodwin, who were at the time among the represent- atives from Portsmouth. Mr. Jewell's friendship for Ichabod Bartlett amount- ed to an admiration, and he never ceased, during Mr. Bartlett's life, to re- gard him as the ablest legislative de- bater of his day. Mr. Jewell, though successful at Winchester, and appreciat- ed in his county, felt the need of a wider field for his business calling, lie was a Trustee of the Cheshire Provident Institution for Savings, and of the Keene Academy, and had the confidence of the entire community ; but his business caused him frequently to make journeys down the Connecticut valley, and he cone hided, after mature reflection, that he could enlarge his busi- ness by "seeking his fortune." as he ex- pressed it. at Hartford. Before this, he was able, though at the time he had a large family, to give his eldest son a good preparatory education for his entry to Dartmouth college. Harvey toll I his father that he would remain with him and render the customary service during his minority, but that he must have an education. The father wisely concluded that if this was his son's wish, it should be grati- fied, and the voting man was sent to Keene academy to begin his prepara- tory studies. Here he was, as after- ward in college, a classmate with Hon. Horatio G. Parker, of Boston.

The mother of Mr. Jewell was Enii'y Alexander, whose father was a promi- nent citizen of Cheshire county. She survives her son, and has ever been noted for her devotion to religious principles, her interest in reformatory

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