Logan-Pulaski County ArArchives Biographies.....Jewell, Iverson H. 1878 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/arfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Robert Sanchez http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00027.html#0006574 June 1, 2009, 8:03 pm Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922) IVERSON H. JEWELL, M. D. Dr. Iverson H. Jewell, who since 1908 has been a representative of the medical profession in Arkansas and who has been successfully practicing in Paris as a surgeon since 1911, was born in West Tennessee, April 18, 1878, and is a son of I. C. and Frances (James) Jewell, who were natives of Middle Tennessee, and the former was of Scotch descent. The grandfather, Elihu Jewell, was born in Scotland and on coming to America in young manhood settled in Tennessee, where he followed the blacksmith's trade. The grandfather in the maternal line was Alva James, a native of Virginia, who spent most of his life in Tennessee, where he departed this life. The birth of I. C. Jewell occurred in 1852 and his death in 1897. His wife, who was born in 1848, died in 1904. They were married in Middle Tennessee, whence they removed to the western part of the state and in 1880 came to Logan county, Arkansas, where Mr. Jewell homesteaded and began farming. He purchased more land from time to time and at his death was the owner of an excellent property, both he and his wife dying on the farm. They had a family of eleven children, seven of whom are living: I. H.; N. C., a farmer of Sugar Grove, Arkansas; E. V., who was for a time engaged in the oil business and is now farming at Chickasha, Oklahoma; A. C., who is occupying the old homestead; J. B., living on a farm near Paris: V. C., who has charge of the commissary for the farmers' union in Oklahoma; and V. L., who is practicing medicine in Blaine, Arkansas. The parents were members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, in Paris, and Mr. Jewell gave his political endorsement to the democratic party. Iverson H. Jewell pursued his early education in the rural schools of Logan county and continued his studies in the high school at Paris, after which he spent a year in the State University of Arkansas. For six or eight years he engaged successfully in teaching school but regarded this merely as an initial step to other professional labor and eagerly availed himself of the opportunity to become a student in the medical college of the State University at Little Rock, where he was graduated in 1908, receiving the medal from the medical department of the university for the highest standing in the four-year course. He then began practice in the capital city, where he remained for three years and was in the city hospital at Little Rock from 1907 until 1910. In 1911 he assisted in organizing the hospital at Paris and still owns a third interest in this institution. He makes a specialty of surgery and is particularly capable and successful in this branch of the profession. He entered the army and was commissioned a first lieutenant of the Reserve Corps of the regular army in 1914. He was called out for active service on the Mexican border in 1916 and following his return home was appointed a member of the draft board, on which he served in 1917 and 1918. In the latter year he was commissioned a captain in the regular army and did laboratory work at Whipple Barracks in Arizona for a time, after which he was transferred to Camp Pike and served on the surgical staff there until after the signing of the armistice. Later he returned home and began the active practice of medicine and surgery at Paris, was commissioned a captain in the Medical Reserve Corps and was also commissioned examiner of the war bureau insurance and was made county health officer in 1914, serving until June, 1921, except while in active service. He has done much important public work in the field of his profession in addition to a large private practice and is regarded as one of the foremost physicians and surgeons of Logan county. In September, 1913, Dr. Jewell was married to Miss Mosella Lauhon, who was born in Ozark, Arkansas, a daughter of J. W. Lauhon, an early settler and well known farmer of Franklin county. Dr. Jewell and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and he belongs also to the Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen of the World and to the American Legion. His political endorsement has always been given to the democratic party and he is most loyal to any cause which he espouses. He belongs to the Pulaski County Medical Society, the Arkansas State Medical Society, and is a member of the American Medical Association, and he devotes his entire time to the practice of medicine and surgery, having a liberal patronage. His ability, which has been developed through earnest study and broad experience, is today widely acknowledged not only by the laity but by his professional colleagues and contemporaries as well. Additional Comments: Citation: Centennial History of Arkansas Volume II Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1922 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ar/logan/bios/jewell11bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/arfiles/ File size: 5.4 Kb