Jewell, Harvey (1820-1881)

Name:

Jewell, Harvey (1820-1881)

Title:

Representative, Massachusettes Legislature, until 1871
Speaker, Massachusetts House of Representatives
Candidate for Mass. Governor, 1871, withdrew

Born:

05/26/1820

Birthplace:

Winchester, NH

Died:

12/08/1881

Death Location:

Boston, MA

Residence:

Winchester, NH
Boston, MA, 1847-1881
Concord, NH

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Tanner, along with brothers and father.
Lawyer, had law office in Boston, MA, specialty in maritime and corporate law.

Father:

Jewell, Pliny (1797-

Mother:

Alexander, Emily

Relations:

Siblings (all born Winchester, NH):
Jewell, Pliny Jr. (1823-; tanner in father's belt firm of P. Jewell & Sons)
Jewell, Marshall (1825-83; tanner; Gov. of CT; minister to Russia; U.S. Postmaster General; world traveller)
Jewell, Lyman Beecher (1827->1900; merchant; res. Hartford, CT; joined firm of P. Jewell & Sons; married Charlotte Augusta Williams, cousin of Susan Bradley)
Jewell, Charles A. (1841-; joined firm of P. Jewell & Sons)

Spouse:

Susan A. Bradley (1826-1903), December 26, 1849

Children:

Elizabeth Bradley, born Ocotber 19, 1850; died August 22, 1857
Susan Emily, born March 7, 1854; died August 1936; m. George P. Sanger; no children)
Helen Lyman, born October 27, 1858; died January 12, 1863
Margaret Harvey, born December 15, 1866; died January 15, 1970; unmarried; NHHS donor)

Notes:

"A man of scholarly tastes, he owned a magnificent library, stored with the choicest and most valuable gems of literature.... Mr. Harvey Jewell was engaged in the practice of law in Boston. He was an enthusiastic fisherman, and an expert in the capture of striped bass off the rocks at Swampscott, where he had a summer cottage" (from "The Estates Numbered 18 and 20 on the South Side of Beacon St., www.kellscraft.com/ParkStreet/parkstreetch22.html).

Nathaniel Bouton, The History of Concord, From Its First Grant in 1725, to the Organization of the City Government in 1853... (Concord, New Hampshire: McFarland & Jenks, 1856), 635.

Pliny Jewell and Joel Jewell, The Jewell Register, Containing A List of the Descendants of Thomas Jewell, of Braintree, Near Boston, Mass. (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood and Company, 1860), 60, 65.

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA