Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Jewell, E. W. 1860 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 25, 2007, 11:03 pm Author: O. H. Bentley (1910) E. W. Jewell, furniture dealer, of Mount Hope, Sedgwick county, Kan., was born June 25, 1860, in Princeton, Mo. He is a son of D. W. Jewell, a native of New Jersey. The mother was a native of Ohio. The remote ancestors of the family in the paternal line were English. D. W. Jewell was born on the Monmouth battlefield in 1813. He moved from New Jersey to Ohio with his parents in 1817, where they settled for a time at Middletown. The father of E. W. Jewell was married twice, the first time to a Miss Shaffer, of Middletown, Ohio. Of this union eight children were born, four of whom are now living. In 1835 the elder Jewell moved to Cass county, Michigan, and engaged in farming. In 1852 he again moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where his first wife died in 1850. Mr. Jewell's second wife was Miss Sarah Clapp, a daughter of Newton Clapp, of South Whitley, Ind. Four children were born of this union, A. W., E. W., Mary and D. I. In 1852 the elder Jewell started for Oregon, but on account of sickness and the Border Ruffian war he was unable to proceed further than Princeton, Mo., where he lived twenty-three years. In June, 1878, he moved to Sedgwick county, Kansas, near Mount Hope, and lived there up to the time of his death in 1884. He was a successful farmer and held the office of County Clerk at Princeton, Mo., for two years. His second wife died in 1901. E. W. Jewell obtained his education in the common schools of Missouri and Kansas, which he attended up .to the age of twenty-one. He was then for two years clerk in a store at Mount Hope and then was clerk in a furniture store with Mr. Bardshar nine months, and in 1884 purchased the latter's interest in the business. He is now the sole proprietor of one of the largest retail furniture stores in southern Kansas, having a big trade in Kansas and Oklahoma. Mr. Jewell is a member of the Masonic Order, Blue Lodge, No. 238, in which he has been Junior Deacon and Senior Deacon. He is a Republican in politics and active in the interests of his party. Mr. Jewell was married to Miss Elma Kennedy, of Ravenna, Mo., on September 8, 1886. Mrs. Jewell was educated in the common schools of that place and in a musical college at Des Moines, Iowa, and Leavenworth, Kan. For several years she has taught instrumental music in Mount Hope and is known as an accomplished musician. Six children have been born of the union, all of whom are living. They are: Nellie, Carrie, Gladys, Mary, Edwin A. and Gertrude. The oldest, Nellie, is now (1910) attending the Mount Carmel Institute at Wichita. The other children are attending the city schools of Mount Hope. Additional Comments: Extracted from History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/sedgwick/bios/jewell336gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ksfiles/ File size: 3.4 Kb