The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-05-21
The Jewett Family of Hartford.
Darlington and Deer Greek.
Recollection of President Hugh J. Iewetts
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Recollection of President Hugh J. Iewett's
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The New York Graphic publishes the following
interesting account of the Jewett family of this
county, written by Mr.. George Alfred ~ "nsend
The thousand or two New Workers who &c
through Havre de Grace, Md, every week do moi
know that they are close by region OF scenery
as picturesque as the Thousand Islands and as
high and bold as the Palisades; buggy OF
saddle horse will take you from Havre de Grace
in half an hour to Zion Hill-mansiOn of Colonel
Rodgers, brother-n-law of August Belmont and
the Perry family-whence the Chesapeake is like
"a lake submerged in islands and blue bars OF
mountain. Passing over and down this hill to
the north side, you see Port Deposit, anchored
under the perpendicular granite hills where
Postmaster-t General Crcswell was born Con
tnuing up the Susquehanna side, you reach q
broad, beautiful mill creek, one OF the largest
streams of Maryland, on which are several oid
stone mills, grinding wheat, flint and plaster. Al
one of these, now in ruins William Pinkney, our
first international lawyer; WAS married III a ppr-
rowed suit of clothes. little farther up this
Deer Creek near the hamlet of Glcnville. Hugh
J. Jewett the respected President of the Erie
Railroad. was born, three miles from me QUAKER
town of Darlington, where his parents are buried,
and ten miles from Bel Air, the county seat Mr.;
Jewett was probably born about 1878; He is SAID
to have left this region at the age of twenty and
some say it was in the year 1896. In the same
county were born Otho Scott, great lawyer of
Maryland; Edwin Booth, Chapman, the artist :;
Governor now Senator kirkwood, of Iowa; A.
w. Bradford, Governor of Maryland; John stump,
the greatest miller in the states during Napoleon
wars and John Archer, the first American gradu-
ated physician Hartford is not a very old county
of Maryland, having been organized just before
the Revolutionary war.
ANCESTRY OF MIR. JEwETT.
The house where Mr. Jewett was born has been
recently transformed into an apparently new
granite villa with Gothic features, but white
stone in the front tells the true date 17O 1t was
for century plain stone house made of gness
blocks Two stores ana g T S Of nnr
roof. Like all the surrounding farm houses, IT
stands on high hill, two or three hundred feet
above Deer Creek, in the eye of noble amphi-
theatre of hill estates all so beautifully titled and
fenced and trimmed us TO show that the shiftless
STAKEHOLDER race never We're controllers mere; IN
the Patuxent. Patapsco and Pocomoke, moved up
here years before William Penn obtained his char.
ter and took possession of the hills and valleys of
Deer Creek. They received additions from the
surrounding people; one of these, James Rigby,
gave them Westinghouse at Darlington in li2'.
1t became one of the greatest Quaker meetings in
the country and the scat OF moral influence
which was taken up by Asbury, Freedom Gar
rettson and other evangelists. The old Darlington
Westinghouse still stands on a high, green ridge
of country, near an academy and fine new Me
mortal Episcopal Church and q new spick-and-
span Orthodox Quaker church,, which has brown
Gothic window sashes and porte cochete' Old
Darlington is Hickste, and has only fifteen to
twenty Sunday worshippers now, but thas beau
tfui graveyard, under whose oaks, ocusts, willows
and cedars the periwinke clothes the graves knee
deep and blossoms in the upland gale. Alow-set,
rounded stone says on its top: " Joshua Husband,
died 10Th of sixth month 1897 aged seventy-three.
This good Quaker was the master of John Jew
EFT, apprentice to the tanning business ON Deer
Jewett. So Mr.. Jewetta father, like General
Grants was tanner.
stained blocks of primitive stone, with two doors
in the side and one in the end, is still an imposing
church, and very Old men. Of whom there are many
left-ike John Webster Massey, aged eghty-four
with whom talked-sa that in the quiet of sun
day mornings they think they hear the rich, strong
voice of Snsannah Jewett Still denOuncing Il hire
ling clergy and nourishing the inner light Of
Christs own candle in the heart. she was the
greatest preacher of all these parts and at her
is covered with green towering vine, and the
new marble footstono says on its broad edge:
Srsanunh, wife of John Jcw"tt
Died y mo, Is, lSi3,
Aged II years.
4 GREAT MOTHER.
She was the mother Of Hugh j. Jcwctt and n fine
physical woman of sterling Independence of char
meter and public spirit, who raised family of
Of whomit Is familiary said here: They had such
address and enterprise that Hartford county could
not hold Them
Woman never rises so near the faculties of man
and the instinct of craftsmanship as in the healthy
circulation of pure young Quakercss's blood.
whose genius is seeking an inner light and speaks
wide of the conventionalities ofher times. Susan
nah Judge was of the Virginia race of Friends, il
is said, who emigrated West soon after the Revo-
lutonary war. Herbeauty fervorand command
ing spirit attracted John Jewett, then well-to-do
farmer, when she visited Darlington early in the
century. He was u Quaker, not by birth but as
one of Friend Husband apprentices raised in the
ancient Maryland family, who settled about Bush
River She married DIR. Jewett, Il Massachusetts
settler in the State, about the time the Federal
Constitution was adopted and he dying early, his
two sons, John and Thomas, were placed by their
uncle, John Lee Webster, in the care of a man
who could teach them good craft. lie left them
by his will in 1913 800 apiece. John Jowctt. the
only son to grow up, became model of peace
able citizen Though Quaker, he was always
Democrat, believing that General jackson was
purifying high places, and making the Govern
mcnt plain and vigorous. He never held any
Webster, also set his own slaves free. Tho Quaker
stone over Mr. Jcwctt's father, says;
John Jowctt,
Died mo-, @S, ISL,
Aged X years
lie was, therefore, five years older than his clo-
quent wife, whose ministry had no irmcr disciple
than he. She was II large blonde, tall and in later
life tolerably stout. He was straight, direct, not
large man, wearing the Quaker dress. They had
ten children, all boys but one Anna, who became
an Episcopalian, and is Mrs stephen s. Johns, of
Pennsylvania. of these boys Joseph H., now v-
He inherited the farm. Another son, john was
prominent Republican of his native county. Their
rather left his four sons, John, Joshua, Isaac and
Hugh Judge, who were all independent, $40 keep
sake apiece He forgave two others their notes to
him, one of whom was the late Judge Thomas T..
Jewett, of Philadelphia, and left his daughter $500
Every son of John and Susannah Jewctt was an
undertaking Union man. Two of them went to
Ohio, two to New York, three to Baltimore. OF
the latter one-a physician, James J.-died sud
denly in 1889, and his resolute mother preached
the funeral sermon oyer his remains. Isaac W.
JeWeuU Is pTeSlucnu OF IN insurance company III
Baltimore. Joseph Jewett emgrated to Ken
lucky, where he became distinguished land law
yer, and died after serving two terms in Congress.
Thomas l.. Jewett made fortune when boy, but
losing it took up the law, became railroad presi-
dent and coal miner, and died wealthy.
The people of Hartford county say that Hugh J.
Jewett has been the pillar butress of the fami
ly his sagacty and prudence pointing out the path
and conduct for all his brothers. He went to school
on his fathers farm in stone school house, not
standing, and then to a Latin teacher near
Deer Creek. For short time he taught school
across the Susquehanna and then studied law in
the office of Colonel John Groome at EllSton father
OF the present Maryland Senator. His face was at
o., and made an immediate success his Justice,
frmness, courtesy and clear perception, despatch
of work and fine equilibrium making his services
and society equally in request. He married the
sister, ii is understood in Hartford, of Governor
of the State. After perfect success at the bar he
was called to look into the anomalous condition
of the Central Ohio Railroad, which, with every
presumption in its favor, was making nothing for
its stockholders, and deep in debt Mr.. Jewett
went over the line, inspected the accounts and
asked TO be put in charge of 1t he discharged
every man but one, finding system of peculaton
all but universal. He re erected that road as he
has done with the Erie and ever since has been
more prominent in the administration than in the
law. His course is watched from his native conn
~ with growing interest, and the primary cleo
tions of last Monday in Ohio showed that he was
the alternate of Senator Thurman in his party :
choice there for the Presidency. GATH.
Condensed News.