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JEWELL 624 JEWETT on more than one occasion. Finally, in 1883, he was obliged to resign and seek a more favorable climate, and the disease progressed until the end came when he was not yet fifty years of age. Dr. Jewell married M. C. Kennedy, of Nashville, Illinois, December 22, 1864. Emin. Amcr. Phys. & Surgs., R. F. Stone, 1894, 644-45. Phys. & Surgs. of the U. S., W. B. Atkinson, 1878, 409. Jewell, Wilson (1800-1867) Wilson Jewell, of Philadelphia, was presi- dent of his city's board of health, and devoted much attention to "Vital Statistics," being in- strumental in framing the law for the reg- istration of births, marriages and deaths, that stood for thirty years on the statute books. He was born in Philadelphia, November 12, 1800, the son of Kenneth Jewell, a draper and tailor. Wilson graduated in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 1824 and then sailed on a packet ship to China as med- ical officer. On his rteturn he married Rachel Lyon, an orphan, and began practice at Branchtown, Pennsylvania. In 1828 he was back in Philadelphia to remain for life, except for two years spent in Altown, Illinois, from 1837 to 1839. As a Fellow of the College of Physi- cians he read a report before the college in 1853 on the outbreak of yellow fever in that year. He took a lively interest in the affairs of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, and in the Quarantine and Sanitary Commis- sion, of which he was president in 1857, when it met in his native city. As vice-presidert of the American Medical Association he de- livered the address of the retiring president in 1864 because of the illness of Dr. Eli Ives (q. v.), the president. He published in the Medical Examiner mor- tality tables of Philadelphia during the years 1852 and 1853, having previously read a report on hygiene before the Northern Medical As- sociation. His wife, the mother of nine children, died of pneumonia in 1865. Two years later Dr. Jewell married Mrs. Charlotte McMullen, who had been his patient for many years. They made a journey to Europe, which was cut short at the end of four months by his ill- ness with heart disease. He lived only a short time, dying suddenly in his office, November 4, 1867. Dr. Jewell was a tall and portly man. He had positive opinions on many subjects. An indomitable perseverance with a high sense of duty enabled him to accomplish much. Trans. Med. Soc. Pa., 1880, vol. viii, 368-374, Wm. T. Taylor. Trans. Amer. Med. Asso., 1880, vol. xxxi, 1052. Jewett, Charles (1839-1910) Charles Jewett was born in Bath, Maine, September 27, 1839; both his father, George Jewett, and his mother, Sarah Jewett, nee Hall, were residents of Maine. He received his early education at the Bath High School, and later attended Bowdoin College, being graduated from that institution with high honors in 1864, taking the degree of A. B. Three years later he received his A. M. Bow- doin afterwards honored him, 1894, by con- ferring upon him the degree of Sc. D. He began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Hiram Lathrop, M. D., of Cooperstown, N. Y., in 1867. In 1869 he con- tinued his medical studies by taking his first course of lectures at the Long Island College Hospital; from there he went to the Univer- sity Medical College in New York. His third }car was spent at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, from which he received the degree of M. D. in 1871. After his gradua- tion he settled in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he practised general medicine for about eight years. His early experience as a teacher be- gan in the Adelphi Academy of Brooklyn, as professor of physical science. In 1868 Dr. Jewett married Miss Abbie E. Flagg, of New Hampshire. Two children were born of this union — Harold F. Jewett, M. D., and Alice Hall Jewett. Mrs. Jewett died at the birth of her second child from a puer- peral complication, due to the faulty obste- trical methods of the times. The sorrow so affected Dr. Jewett that he determined to de- vote his life to the improvement of obstetri- cal conditions and technique. In 1880 he was appointed professor of ob- stetrics in the Long Island College Hospital, a chair he held until 1898, when, upon the death of the late A. J. C. Skene (q. v.), in 1899, he became professor of obstetrics and gjnecologi' in the same institution, a position which he held until the time of his death. During his years of activity in his special field, he was connected at one time or another, as attending or consulting surgeon, with many of the large hospitals of Brooklyn. During the last few years of his life his time was given to the Long Island College Hospital, to which he was attached as obstetrician and gynecological surgeon. He was consultant ob- stetrician and gi'necologist to the Kings County Hospital, the Bushwick Hospital, the Swedish Hospital, the German Hospital, St. Mary's Hospital, and St. Christopher's Hos- pital. At the time of his death he was a member