ADAMS JEWETT
Was born in St. Johnsbury, Vt., July 26, 1807. His father, Rev. Luther Jewett, M.D., of the Class of 1795, died at St. Johnsbury, March 8, 1860, aged 87. His mother was Betsey, sister of Ebenezer Adams, so long the highly esteemed Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Dartmouth College.
He was prepared for college at Moor's School, Hanover, N.H., under the tuition of Messrs. George Richardson and A. F. Putnam. In the fall after graduating, he went to Alabama, and was engaged as a private teacher for four years ; most of the time near Claiborne, in the family of of John Murphy, then Governor of the State, and the remainder in the family of Dr. Thomas Casey, of Mobile, with whom he commenced the study of Medicine. For two years subsequent, he was Professor in Spring Hill College, an Institution then just founded by the Catholic Bishop of Mobile, and distant a few miles from that city.
In December, 1833, he sailed from Mobile for France to prosecute medical studies. He arrived in Paris in February, 1834; and, (with the exception of about three months in the latter part of 1837, spent in Edinburgh, Scotland, where, after examination, he received the diploma of the Royal College of Surgeons,) remained there a little over four years, two of them as Externe in the Hospitals, under Velpeau and Louis. In April, 1838, Ke went to England, and remained there about five months; three of them passed in observing hospital practice in the Royal Infirmary of Manchester. He returned to the United States, in October, 1838; and commenced practice, the subsequent winter, in Mobile. He remained there until May, 1842, when, “unwilling to rear up a family under the blighting influences of slavery," he removed to Dayton, O., where he has since resided in the practice of his profession.
In 1856, he received the degree of M.D., from Dartmouth. In October, 1862, he was appointed Examining Surgeon for Invalid Pensions, and retained the office until May 4, 1869.
Dr. Jewett has taken a deep and active interest in the Temperance, Phonetic, and Anti-slavery Reforms. “ He joined one of the earliest formed Total Abstinence Societies, and has practiced on its principles ever since. He believes that the day will come when the orthography of our language will be radically reformed. He has always acted with the Party of Freedom.”
He was married in Mobile, July 3, 1841, to Mary P.P., daughter of Moses Smith, Esq., late of Lancaster, Mass.
He has had five children three daughters, deceased ; and two sons, Henry Smith and Luther Hibbard. The former of these graduated at the University of Michigan, in June, 1868, and has since been pursuing the study of medicine in the same Institution.
His brother, and for a time partner at Dayton, Hibbard Jewett, graduated from the Medical College in 1820.
