Representative Jacob Jewell View All Years

HON. JACOB JEWELL.

MR. SPEAKER—Your committee appointed to prepare and present suitable resolutions in commemoration of the life, character, and public service of the Honorable Jacob Jewell, late a member of this House in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth General Assemblies, respectfully submits the following:

Jacob Jewell, the subject of this memorial, was born November 4, 1825, in Knox county, Ohio, and died November 15, 1908, at his home near Decorah, Iowa.

He grew to manhood’s estate on a farm, attending the rural schools in winter and working on a farm during the summer months. He was married to Emily Headington, February 27, 1849, and the following spring moved to Wyandotte county, Ohio, where he remained until the spring of 1850, when he emigrated to the West, locating in Winneshiek county, Iowa, where he continued to reside up to the time of his death.

The subject of this memorial was a man of strict integrity and noble purpose and gained the confidence of the community in which he lived to such a degree that he was called to fill many places of public trust. He served for several terms on the board of supervisors and this led him into a broader field of political activity.

Always a staunch Democrat, in 1889 he received the nomination of his party for the office of Representative, and was elected to the Twenty-third, and later to the Twenty-fourth General Assemblies over an ordinarily overwhelming adverse majority. In every undertaking in which he was engaged, his labor was conscientiously performed and every confidence reposed in him was faithfully redeemed.

The years of his earthly life were over eighty and three and they were full of efficient service and the county of Winneshiek and the State of Iowa are better for his having adopted them as his own; therefore be it

Resolved: That the foregoing memorial be adopted by this House, and entered upon the Journal thereof and that a properly engrossed copy, duly authenticated by the Speaker and Clerk of the House, be sent to the members of his family.

P. M. JEWELL,

J. H. DERROUGH,

HERMAN KULL,

Committee.

Adopted February 16, 1909.