THE MINNESOTA 



HORTICULTURIST. 



VOL. 35. MAY, 1907. No. 5. 



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R. H. L. JEWETT, 



CORNING, CAL. 



Died Sept. 29, 1906, age 73 years. 



Richard Henry Lee Jewett was born at West Greenwich, Rhode 

 Island, in 1834. He was a son of Dr. Charles Jewett, who was well 

 known in New England as a prominent worker in the early tem- 

 perance movement. It was from him that Mr. Jewett got his early 

 interest in horticulture. 



Mr. Jewett came to Minnesota in 1856 and pre-empted land on 

 Cannon Lake, near Faribault. It was a part of this land which he, 

 in late years, had set to orchard and other fruits. 



He enlisted at Boston Aug. 30, 1862, in the 2nd Massachusetts 

 Inf. and was mustered out of service June 19, 1865, as captain in 

 the 54th Massachusetts Inf. He was>twice seriously wounded. 



He was married, during the war, at Chicago, to Miss Eliza 

 Nutting, and at the close of the war settled at Faribault, Minn., 

 and followed his profession of civil engineer. For many years he 

 was engaged in government and railroad surveying. 



For the twenty years immediately preceding his removal to Cali- 

 fornia a year ago, his home was in St. Paul. During that time he 

 was employed in the state land department at the capitol. He re- 

 signed that position in October, 1905, and moved to Corning, Cali- 

 fornia, in the hope that rest and a change of climate would benefit 

 his health, but after a long illness he died on September 29, 1906, 

 of nervous prostration. 



He was. a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion 

 and Past Commander of the Acker Post, ^ Grand Army of the Re- 

 public. Was a charter member of the Congregational Church, of 

 Faribault, wdiich church has recently celebrated its 50th anniver- 

 sary. His last membership was with the Park Congregational 



