Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . secured a place for her inthe Home for the Aged. He was a liberal supporter of the church and school, and nearlycontinuously a Director, Trustee, or Treasurer of a School was not a memlier of any clubs or fraternal organizations. Religiously, he had been trained by his parents in the faith ofthe so-called Orthodox Congregational Church, with which he uni-ted when young, but after coming West, did not place his member-ship with any church, for in his latter days he believed that trueIeligion depends on facts; not on theor
Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . secured a place for her inthe Home for the Aged. He was a liberal supporter of the church and school, and nearlycontinuously a Director, Trustee, or Treasurer of a School was not a memlier of any clubs or fraternal organizations. Religiously, he had been trained by his parents in the faith ofthe so-called Orthodox Congregational Church, with which he uni-ted when young, but after coming West, did not place his member-ship with any church, for in his latter days he believed that trueIeligion depends on facts; not on theory, bvit on acts. He was aChristian man, of most exemplary character, and a true type of thepioneers who lived and labored for the good of their posterity. June Twenty-ninth, 1900, he divided among his twelve childrenfive hundred and sixty-two acres of land, all in Polk County, andnot a part of Kingman Place, reser^ing amply sufficient for him-self and his mother, and, with contentment, waited the coming ofthe night which has no to-morrow. August Fourth, GEORGE A. JEWETT GEORGE A. JEWETT AN old settler who has had part in the development of PolkCounty and Des Moines in a quiet, yet none the less poten-tial way, is George A. Jewett, a Hawkeye by birth. Bom in Red Rock, Marion County, September ISTinth, 1847,of mixed ancestry (to be precise, three-eighths English, one-fourthScotch, one-eighth Welsh, one-eighth French, one-eighth Hollander)—be passed his first ten years on a farm, and attended the commonschool. A favorite camping-place of the Indians was near RedRock, and George made himself chummy with the Indian they could beat him shooting with bows and arrows, andriding ponies bareback, he could beat them at marbles, but theysoon taught him to become a very good arrow-shooter, and he doesnot believe he ever had more real enjoyment than he had with thosechildren of the forest. Referring to the sources of amusement inhis youth, a few days ago, he said his Uncl
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