Lewis County, West Virginia Biography of LEVI JEWELL This biography was submitted by Valerie Crook, E-mail address: The submitter does not have a connection to the subject of this sketch. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 456 Lewis LEVI JEWELL is associated with his father, W. R. Jewell, in a very prosperous business as a breeder of Hereford cattle. The Jewell farm has some of the best stock of this kind in West Virginia, and the Jewells are recognized authorities on the Hereford strain and have made a dis- tinctive success of their business. The Jewell Stock Farm is eight miles south of Weston in Lewis County. Levi Jewell was born on another farm, two and a half miles north of Weston, May 2, 1882, and all his life he has been interested in matters of good farm- ing and good livestock. He is a republican in politics, and is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Ancient Order of United Workmen. On August 28, 1903, he married Bertha E. Smith, who was born on a farm in Lewis County, December 28, 1887, and supplemented her advantages in the common schools by attending Wesleyan College at Buckhannon. Her father was Wilson E. Smith. Levi Jewell and wife have nine children, named Ernestine, Walter, Howard, Paul, Robert, Clyde, Irene, Ralph and Ruth. There are three partners in the Hereford cattle industry conducted by the Jewells, W. R. Jewell, and Levi and Al- bert Jewell. W. R. Jewell was born four miles north of Weston November 29, 1852, son of Albert and Catherine H. (Ramsey) Jewell. Albert Jewell was born in the State of Maine in 1816, and his wife was born in Virginia in 1814. Albert grew up on a farm, had a public school education, and when he removed to Virginia he taught school. He married in that state and then came to Lewis County, West Virginia, where he continued teaching and farming. In 1856 he moved to the vicinity of Roanoke, and two years later to the farm three and a half miles north of Weston, where he spent the rest of his life. His wife died in the village of Janelew. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church. He was a republican. Albert Jewell and wife had five children, and the two now living are Flavilla C., wife of A. A. Maddox, and W. R. Jewell. W. R. Jewell spent most of his early life on the farm in Lewis County, and had only nominal advantages in the common schools, but later made up the deficiencies by at- tending private school. In the fall of 1874 he became a teacher, and he was identified with the educational affairs of Lewis County for a number of years. In the spring of 1881 W. R. Jewell married Catherine Fisher, who was reared and educated in Lewis County. They have four children: Levi, mentioned above; Florence, wife of I. G. Horner; Albert, who married Arminta dark; and Gay, wife of Z. P. Hammer. The family are members of the Baptist Church. W. R. Jewell is affiliated with Weston Lodge No. 10, A. F. and A. M., the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Vandalia, and is a republican. For four years he held the office of sheriff of Lewis County, and was elected in 1904 to one term in the Legislature. The Jewell Stock Farm comprises a thousand acres. The Jewells have spent a number of years and much money in carefully laying the foundation of their herd of Here- fords. This herd comprises sixty females, and the herd bull is Mapleton Lad 18th.