. Bench and bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. his life were spent in a darkened room. He died at his home in Boston, October30, 1880, at the age of eighty-seven. A volume of his speeches and addresses waspublished in 1858, and a volume of his decisions from 1841 to 1861 was published in1861. He married in Albany, in August, 1818, Sarah, daughter of Moses and SarahDeming, who was born February 17, 1794. Harvey Jewell, son of Pliny and Emily (Alexander) Jewell, was born in Win-chester, N. H., June 26, 1820. His brother, Marshall Jewell, was governor ofConnecticut in 1869, 1871 and 1872;
. Bench and bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. his life were spent in a darkened room. He died at his home in Boston, October30, 1880, at the age of eighty-seven. A volume of his speeches and addresses waspublished in 1858, and a volume of his decisions from 1841 to 1861 was published in1861. He married in Albany, in August, 1818, Sarah, daughter of Moses and SarahDeming, who was born February 17, 1794. Harvey Jewell, son of Pliny and Emily (Alexander) Jewell, was born in Win-chester, N. H., June 26, 1820. His brother, Marshall Jewell, was governor ofConnecticut in 1869, 1871 and 1872; minister to Russia in 1873, and postmaster-gen-eral in 1874. Pliny Jewell, the father of Harvey Jewell, was a tanner by trade, ashis father and grandfather had been before him, and the son, the subject of thissketch, learned the ancestral trade. He afterwards, however, entered DartmouthCollege, and graduated in 1844. After leaving college he taught in one of the publicschools of Boston, while pursuing his law studies in the office of Lyman Mason, of. ^Js k. <yw\ <y^o i/U t^Tcn OV{ BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 565 that city. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 11, 1847. While in practicehe was at various times associated in business with William Gaston, Walbridge , now chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and E. O. Shepard. Possess-ing a critical mind, he devoted himself specially to the work of drafting contracts,charters of incorporation, and other instruments requiring the closest attention todetails and the avoidance of weak and indefensible points. He gave much attentionalso to maritime law, and his advice in this branch of his profession possessed to alarge degree the authority of law. Though a lover of the law and obedient to itsbehests, he felt the attractions of political life and yielded to them, probably to hisdisadvantage, looking only to professional success. In early life a Whig, and latera Republican, he was a member of the Boston City Council
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