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Jewell or hia physicians, of the existence of a large cancer in the 

 stomach, which was undoubtedly the cause of his long illness and 

 death. 



Such, in brief, are the main features of biographical interest in 

 the life of a prominent citizen just passed awaj', who was intimately 

 known and sincerely respected in this community. His business 

 gave him an extended acquaintance, being away from home a great 

 deal in attendance upon pomological and horticultural meetings, in 

 the discussions of which he always sustained an active part. He 

 made a close study of our climate and its adaptibility to certain 

 varieties of fruit and ornamental trees. His experience was espe- 

 cially successful, and will in the future, as in the past, prove 

 highly valuable to all interested in this subject. Recognizing the 

 necessity for new varieties of apples that were more hardy than 

 those being set, with such repeated failures, in this state and Wis- 

 consin, he resolved to go to Russia and, if possible, bring back some- 

 thing that would stand our climate, and to this end was making all 

 his arrangements for the summer of 1868; but in the winter preced- 

 ing, while traveling in the southern part of this state and in northern 

 Iowa, he found, as he thought and has since demonstrated, a 

 most valuable acquisition to the desired end in a large collection 

 of seedling Siberians, and in a letter to a friend he wrote, "I shall 

 defer my proposed trip, as I have found a young Russia here." 



He immediately secured the stock and showed his confidence in 

 it by planting and propagating it extensively, and, as a result, we 

 have many valuable varieties, both for their hardiness and itnproved 

 ■quality of fruit, as many fine orchards throughout this country and 

 ■Canada can testify. Perhaps no one act of his life tended more to 

 establish confidence in the minds of many in the ultimate success 

 of fruit growing in this northern climate than the planting for him- 

 self an orchard of five thousard apple trees, which now stand as a 

 beautiful and lasting monume t to his indefatigable energy and en- 

 terprise. 



In the death of Dr. Jewell, the cause of radical temperance in Min- 

 nesota sustains an irreparable loss. Upon the platform he was 

 more than ordinarily gifted as a clear and forcible speaker, while 

 in the ranks, as a temperance advocate and worker, he was active 

 and influential. His heart beat responsively to every cause in the 

 interests of humanity, tending to its educational improvement and 

 moral elevation. Had life and health been granted him, he intended 

 before long to have entered more actively into the work in behalf of 

 some of the many projects for human advancement. 



In his personal and private life. Dr. Jewell was one of the most 

 lovable of men. His mild, unobtrusive manners, his uniform cour- 

 tesy, shown alike to all, and, at his home or elsewhere during his 

 business leisure, his brilliant and genial conversational powers, 

 will not soon be forgotten. If we were disposed to find fault with 

 him, it would be that he was perhaps too modestly exclusive, al- 

 though adapted by education and every essential quality of practical 

 excellence to adorn the highest public positions in the gift of his 

 fellow men. It is unnecessary, however, to allude at any length to 



