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Jewell, James Stewart

physician, educator, was born Sept. 8, 1837, in Galena, Ill. He was professor of anatomy in Chicago Medical college from 1864 till 1869, and of nervous and mental diseases from 1872 till his death. He died April 19, 1887, in Chicago, Ill.

JEWELL, MARSHALL, governor, statesman, was born Oct. 20, 1825, in Winchester, N. H. He was governor of Connecticut from 1868 to 1870; was appointed minister plenipotentiary to Russia in 1873; and in 1874 was appointed postmaster-general in the cabinet of President Grant. He died Feb. 10, 1883, in Hartford, Conn.