THE MINNESOTA 



HORTICULTURIST. 



VOL. 25. FEBRUARY, 1897. NO. 3. 



^^iograpl^y. 



PHiNEAS A. JEWELL. 



(See Frontispiece.) 



(This biographical sketch and obituary was originally published in the report 

 of this society for 1879, but as that report is now out of print and inaccessible to 

 our members and no portrait of him has ever before been published by our society, 

 it seemed entirely proper that it should be reproduced here in connection with 

 his portrait, which appears as a frontispiece to this magazine. Dr. Jewell was 

 one of the most prominent and useful horticulturists our state has produced, and 

 the life of such a one may well and with profit be reviewed.— SEC'Y.) 



Died— At his residence in I.ake City, on Saturday, May 25, 1878, 

 Phineas Anson Jewell, aged 49 years, 4 months and 15 days. 



The deceased was born in New York, January 10, 1829. At the age 

 of twenty-five he entered Oberlin College, but subsequently changed 

 to the medical department of the Michigan State University, where 

 he graduated. During the war he answered the call for physicians 

 in the Army of the Potomac and entered the hospital at Washing- 

 ton, remaining there until disabled bj^ severe illness. His health 

 required him to discontinue the practice of his chosen profession. 

 In 1863 he was united in marriage with Catherine J. Underwood, M. 

 D., and located at Ann Arbor, Mich., where he engaged in the nur- 

 sery business. The subsequent failure of Mrs. Jewell's health led 

 him to seek a home in Minnesota. He spent a year in looking over 

 the state for a favorable location and in April, 1869, settled in Lake 

 City, establishing, in company with his brother-in-law, J. M. Under- 

 wood, the Lake Pepin Nurseries, that have since become so favora- 

 bly known throughout this and adjoining states. 



For a year or inore his health had been very poor, and for several 

 months he was confined wholly to his room, his recovery being 

 deemed almost hopeless, receiving the best treatment and care that 

 medical attendance and loving friendship could bestow. At his 

 own request, a post mortem examination was made, and the examina- 

 tion disclosed the fact, unknown and unsuspected by either Dr. 



