Author : Jeremiah Peabody Jewett
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 41,88 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230229065
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. BIOGRAPHY. Jeremiah Peabody Jewett, who collected the material and started this history, had been for many years a member of the New England Genealogical Society. A brief account of his father's family will be found on page 152. They descended from Joseph Jewett, one of the first settlers of Rowley, Mass. The father, as we have seen, was one of the first settlers of Barnstead. and died there in 1836. His mother, Temperance (Dodge) Jewett, was a sister to Judith Dodge, the mother of George Peabody, well-known to the world as a banker in London. The mother is still living at the age of a hundred years and upwards. Dr. Jewett obtained his common school education at his native village, and in 1826-7 attended Phillips Exeter Academy. His principal instructor there was John Adams. Afterwards he read medicine with his father. Then, for a year or two, he was the medical student of Dr. J. Spoflbrd, of Groveland, and in the years 1831-2 he was a student in the medical department of Dartmouth College, under the instruction of Messrs. Muzzey and Oliver. He received his diploma there, and in March, 1833, made Lowell his place of residence and practice. He was a Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and was for a considerable time President of the Medical Society of " The Middlesex District." For many years he was special coroner in the city of Lowell, sometimes represented it in the Massachusetts legislature, and sometimes in the branches of its own city government. Mrs. Jewett was Miss Harriett E. Loomis, of Windsor, Connecticut. Their sons and daughters now living are EmmaL., Henrietta A., Thomas P., Joseph D., and Alice A., the youngest at the age of Ave years. The Doctor's health began to decline in the autumn of 1868. He...