The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-02-11
Death TAKES
N. H. JEWELL
Veteran North Dakota Editor
Passed Away
AT BISMARCK LAST NIGHT
DEATH CAME AFTER ILLNESS OF
THREE MONTHS HAD LONG
BEEN IDENTIFIED WITH PoLIT.
IcAL AND COMMERCIAL LIFE OF
NORTH DAKOTA.

Bismarck, N. D., Feb. 11.--Marshall
H. Jewell editor of The Bismarck
Tribune, died last night at his late
home in this city at 1925 o'clock,
after an illness of three months. For
several weeks it has been feared that
his Illness was one which would have
no recovery and his death last night,
while unexpected to q degree, had been
looked for for some time.
Mr.. Jewell never gave up the fight
for recovery until the end came, and
lis death came easily without struggle
or pain. Death resulted from en-
largement of the heart. technically
known as acute myocarditis.
Funeral Tuesday
The funeral will occur Tuesday aft
ernoon. There will be a short service
at the residence at O'Clock, attended
by members of the family and close
friends.
The regular funeral services will be
held at 2 o'clock at the Presbyterian
church and conducted under the aus
pices of the knights Templar.
Sketch Of His Life.
The tribe of Jewell was very early
in this country, the descendants of
Bishop Joel Jewell, CT London being
among the earliest to arrive in the
New England colonies. AS his an
cestors were pioneers in Connecticut,
New Hampshire and New York, and
his father an early pioneer of Michi-
gan, it was but natural that Marshall
H. Jewell should be imbued with the
same spirit of adventure and he was
an early resident Of the Territory Of
Dakota
Mr.. Jewell was born at Hector, on
the banks of Seneca lake, in New
York state, April %, 1851 The banks
of this lake were then covered with
a heavy growth of pine and hardwood
timber and those who now reyel in the
vineyards that have taken the place
of the former pine forests can have
but a faint conception OF the priEli-
tfveness OF central New York back ia
the fifties. Mr. Jewelrs father was a
newspaper man and at the breaking
out of the civil war was conducting a
paper called The Bee. at Ovid, N. Y.
Later he went to The Yates County
Chronicle at Penn Yam, n. w, but
not until he had made trip to Grand
Rapids, Mich, with his wife and the
subject of this sketch in arms, to file
on a piece OF government land-to
reach which it was necessary to blaze
a trail twenty-five miles into virgin
forest. Refused enlistment in the army
on account of disability, Mr.. Jewell,
ST., proceeded to clear farm in the
pine. woods. IT was amidst such sur
roundings that the younger Jewell OBJ
tanned the lesson&in hard knocks that
have served him fairly we'll in after
years.
His early schooling was such as
could be obtained in a log building
with equally primitive teachers. The
building Of a railroad brought a town
within three miles of the Jewell open
ing" and for a couple of years Mr.,
Jewell walked to town to attend
school in Cedar Springs. Not sue
cess as a farmer the elder Jewell
went to Chicago in the latter SOS
to work "at his trade" leaving the
family on the farm. and was an en-
ploye OF The Chicago Tribune before
and after the great fire in 1871. Hav-
ing learned something of the printers
trade on The Clipper at Cedar Springs.
Mr.. Jewell went to Chicago to join
his father and later the family moved
to Wheaton, ILL.,, where for a brief
period Mr. Jewell attended the
Wheaton college.
In 1876, after working on several
Chicago papers. Mr.. Jewell was made
foreman OF The Daily Courier. later
was assistant telegraph editor of The
Telegram, on whose presses the first
issues of The Chicago Daily News
were printed.
The Telegram died after something
Of a struggle and, with Stanley Hunt
ley later Of "Spoopendyke" fame,
who was then on The Chicago Times.
Jewell came to st. Paul, and on west
in 1878 to Bismarck, then the end of
the track of the Northern Pacific.
Huntley and Jewell had been in
duced to come to the territory by
Major Edwards, who had just located
at Fargo in the newspaper business
and saw a hot political campaign
ahead. The result was the purchase,
largely with notes endorsed by a mis-
cellaneous number of Bismarckers In
terested In the campaign, of The Bis
marck Tribune, founded and then
owned by Col. c. A. Lounsberry.
Huntley remained a little over year.
made meteoric newspaper and social
record; married the sister of Lieut..
Josiah Chance of Fort Abraham Lin
coin, and went to Brooklyn, N Y.
to add more fame by the writing of
the Spoopendyke letters for The
Brooklyn Eagle
Mr. Jewell remained with The Tri-
bune. Colonel Lounsberry again taking
charge editorialIy and Mr.. Jewell con-
Quoting the job department, until
three years later when Mr.. Jewell sue
ceeded to Colonel Lounsberry's interest
and has ever since been it's publisher.
The Weekly Tribune was established
in 1873 and the daily in 1881.
In 1882 Mr.. Jewell was married to
Kate t. Woods of indianapolis, Ind,
whose grandfather was Hoffner, one
of the leading and oldest families in
Cincinnati, o., and they have two boys.
Paul, age Is. and Ralph, age ~.
Mr.. Jewell was secretary of the Re-
publican Territorial committee and
was chosen secretary of the Republican
State committee I'm 1898, after state
hood, and held that position during
several campaigns. Nov ~. 1903, he
was appointed register Of the United
states landofice at Bismarck. by Presi-
dent Roosevelt. which Office he held
at the time OF his death.