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Title: Marshall H. Jewell
Dates: 1874-1894
Collection Number: 00631
Quantity: 26 items
Abstract: Portraits of Major William Bell, Gall, Low Dog, John Grass, Sitting Bull, Rain-in-the-Face, Bull Head, Crow Foot, Curley, Hairy Chin, Captain Tom McDougall, and Captain F. W. Benteen, a Cheyenne Sun Dance, enlistment of Indian scouts, early graduating classes from the University of North Dakota, and an early street scene in Bismarck (D.T.).
Provenance: The State Historical Society of North Dakota acquired this collection from Mrs. Marshall H. Jewell in July 1917 and Raymond G. Jewell In May 1955.
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Biographical Sketch
Marshall Henry Jewell, publisher of the Bismarck Tribune, the oldest newspaper in North Dakota—the weekly edition being established in June, 1873, and the daily in April 1881—was born in Hector on the banks of Seneca Lake in New York state, April 29, 1857. His father was a newspaper man and back in the ‘50s published the Seneca County Sentinel at Ovid New York. In 1858 Mr. Jewell’s parents moved to Michigan and were among the early pioneers in the region north of Grand Rapids. Mr. Jewell, Sr., in order to support his family while making an “opening” in the pineries, worked much of the time at the printer’s trade in Grand Rapids, the nearest town, walking through a dense forest a distance of over thirty miles every Saturday night to spend Sunday at home. These were the surroundings of the first ten years of the life of the subject of this sketch. Obtaining such education as was possible in the “old log school house,” he attended school in the village of Cedar Springs. Mrs. Jewell’s parents moved to Wheaton, a suburb of Chicago, where Mr. Jewell attended the college for a brief period.
During his early school days in Cedar Springs Mr. Jewell found opportunity to work “after hours” in the Clipper office and was this enabled to learn the printer’s trade. He went to Chicago and in 1870 was made foreman of the Daily Courier and later telegraph editor of the Telegraph on whose presses the first issue of the Daily News was printed. Associated with Stanley Hunter, Mr. Jewell came to Bismarck in 1878 and secured control of the Weekly Tribune from its founder, Colonel C. A. Lounsberry. He was associated with these gentlemen a few years, succeeding to their interests in 1883. The Bismarck Tribune is now widely known as one of the leading and most influential newspapers in the northwest while the publishing department, which has handled the state printing since 1883, when the capitol was located in Bismarck, is one of the most complete of its kind in the country.
Mr. Jewell has always taken an active part in politics as well as business and is a familiar figure and prominent factor in all state Republican gatherings. He was chosen secretary of the Republican state committee in 1893 and again in the McKinley campaign of 1896.
In 1882 Mr. Jewell was married to Kate T. Woods of Indianapolis (Ind.) and they had two sons, Paul and Ralph. Marshall Jewell died February 10, 1911 at age 53.
Sources:
Compendium of History and Biography of North Dakota, 1900.
Bismarck Tribune
Inventory
00631-00001 Major William Bell 1890
00631-00002 Cheyenne Indians dressed for Sun Dance 1885
00631-00003 Cheyenne Indian candidates for enlistment as U.S. scouts, Fort Reno (D.T.) 07/1885
00631-00004 Chief Gall circa 1887
00631-00005 Low Dog or Chun-Ka-coo-chi-a-la, Sitting Bull's right hand man 1885
00631-00006 Curley, General Custer's scout 1885
00631-00007 Street scene, Bismarck (D.T.) 1874
00631-00008 Chief John Grass 1890
00631-00009 Sitting Bull 1880
00631-00010 Lieutenant Bull Head 12/15/1890
00631-00011 Four women in Sitting Bull's family stand outside his log house circa 1890
00631-00012 Chief Long Dog circa 1890
00631-00013 Chief Rain-in-the-Face and wife circa 1885
00631-00014 Chief Harry Chin (Long Dog's brother) circa 1885
00631-00015 Crow Foot, Sitting Bull's son circa 1885
00631-00016 Captain Thomas M. McDougall, 7th Cavalry circa 1888
00631-00017 Frederick W. Benteen circa 1895
00631-00018 R. L. Casey portrait XX
00631-00019 William Mitchell, first North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction 1889-1890
00631-00020 David F. Barry and Major James McLaughlin XX
00631-00021 Michael L. McCormack, Secretary of State 1886-1889
00631-00022 University of North Dakota Graduating Class of 1890
00631-00023 University of North Dakota Graduating Class of 1891
00631-00024 University of North Dakota Graduating Class of 1893
00631-00025 University of North Dakota Graduating Class of 1894
00631-00026 University of North Dakota Graduating Class of 1895
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