The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . Erastus was bornin the town ofSandwich, N. H.,March 16, 1837. He Came to La- Erastus P. Jewell conia in 1859 and studied law with the late Col. Thos. The law firms of Whipple &Jewell, Jewell & Smith, Jewell & Stone, The foregoing is the full extent of theinformation which Lawyer Jewell waswilling to furnish to the Illustrated La-conian, for asketch of himself,but the publisherstake the liberty toadd that Mr. Jew-ell has a wide rep-utation as a


The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . Erastus was bornin the town ofSandwich, N. H.,March 16, 1837. He Came to La- Erastus P. Jewell conia in 1859 and studied law with the late Col. Thos. The law firms of Whipple &Jewell, Jewell & Smith, Jewell & Stone, The foregoing is the full extent of theinformation which Lawyer Jewell waswilling to furnish to the Illustrated La-conian, for asketch of himself,but the publisherstake the liberty toadd that Mr. Jew-ell has a wide rep-utation as a safeand careful coun-selor and has wonespecial fame inargument andpleading beforethe jurymen ofBelknap countyand in fact in allthe courts of NewHampshire. Hehas always beenintensely interest-ed in matters ofhistory, especiallypertaining to theearly settlementof this section ofNew Hampshire,and probably but few men in New Eng-land can talk so intelligently and in-terestingly of the Indians of the Granite. Residence of Erastus P. Jewell. Jewell, Stone, Owen & Martin, have been state as Perry Jewell. In this con-well and widely known. Mr. Jewells law nection, he has made a large and valu-firm is now Jewell, Owen & Veasey. able collection of Indian relics, stone THE ILLUSTRATED LACONIAN. M3 implements, arrow-heads, hatchets,knives, which he treasures highly,but which will probably some clay beturned over to the custody of the cityfor preservation for future generations. The Late Nathaniel Edgerly. Nathaniel Edgerly was born in theIron Works village in Gilmanton, , 1802, and died in Laconia, Sept. 26,1874. He was one of a family of tenchildren of Da- Mr. Edgerly was married, Nov. 9,1830, to Lucy Thurston of Gilmanton,who died in 1858. Eight children wereborn to them, of whom four survive. In religion. Mr, Edgerly was a Uni-versalist: in politics, a Democrat. Laconia Water Company. No city or town in the United States can boast of a better, purer, or more inexhaustible


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