Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families . ed through the NewEngland States, after the shifting New Englandcustom. For generations the ancestors of the Hart-ford branch of the family lived at Winchester, NewHampshire. Pliny Jewell, whose death occurred in his resi-dence on Washington street, Hartford, Aug. 28,1869, was through a long period of years identifiedwith the business of his adopted city. He was bornSept. 27, 1797, in Winchester, N. H. His fat
Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families . ed through the NewEngland States, after the shifting New Englandcustom. For generations the ancestors of the Hart-ford branch of the family lived at Winchester, NewHampshire. Pliny Jewell, whose death occurred in his resi-dence on Washington street, Hartford, Aug. 28,1869, was through a long period of years identifiedwith the business of his adopted city. He was bornSept. 27, 1797, in Winchester, N. H. His fatherand grandfather were tanners, and the son was bredto that business. He worked in the tannery in thesummer, and attended and taught school in the win-ter, having had the advantage of study at a countryacademy. He remained in Winchester, working athis trade, and carrying on the general business oftanning, until he moved to Hartford, Conn., in continued in the leather business in Hartford,with little interruption, from 1845 until his retire-ment from the prosperous firm of P. Jewell & Sons,three years prior to his death. Mr. Jewell was a man of great strength of will,. -& 4>. sZ&^ COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 873 force of character and decided convictions. In hisreligious opinions, which were always warm andactive, he was a strict Calvinist. His connection inHartford was with the South CongregationalChurch until not long before his death, when heunited with the Center Church. He was secretaryand treasurer of the Windsor Theological Seminary,and was very active in procuring its removal toHartford. Mr. Jewell had always been a great readerof books, delighting especially in the study of Eng-lish and French history and biography. We doubtif there was any man in New England, not profes-sionally educated, so thoroughly conversant withEnglish history as he was, and he knew Americanhistory, particularly that of politics, fully and ac-curately. He never forgot what he o
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