Capt. Benjamin Jewell, 87 years old, a familiar figure in the history of the Mississippi river since the days of the keel boat, is dead. His body will be buried Wednesday in Fee Fee Cemetery.
Capt. jewell's death occurred at the homw of his granddaughter, Mrs. John A. Pohlman of 902 Baugh avenue, East St. Louis. He is survived by Mrs. Pohlman and a son, Benjamin jewell of St. Louis.
There was not a landing from St. Louis to New Orleans which Capt. Jewell did not know and where he was not known by the rivermen of a previous generation. He was made a pilot in the days before the civil war when steamboating was in its greatest glory. Just before the outbreak of the war, he became a captain, serving on the hurricane deck until advancing age and the waning of the steamboat caused his retirement.
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Dec. 15, 1903
Capt. jewell's death occurred at the homw of his granddaughter, Mrs. John A. Pohlman of 902 Baugh avenue, East St. Louis. He is survived by Mrs. Pohlman and a son, Benjamin jewell of St. Louis.
There was not a landing from St. Louis to New Orleans which Capt. Jewell did not know and where he was not known by the rivermen of a previous generation. He was made a pilot in the days before the civil war when steamboating was in its greatest glory. Just before the outbreak of the war, he became a captain, serving on the hurricane deck until advancing age and the waning of the steamboat caused his retirement.
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Dec. 15, 1903
Capt. Benjamin Jewell, 87 years old, a familiar figure in the history of the Mississippi river since the days of the keel boat, is dead. His body will be buried Wednesday in Fee Fee Cemetery.
Capt. jewell's death occurred at the homw of his granddaughter, Mrs. John A. Pohlman of 902 Baugh avenue, East St. Louis. He is survived by Mrs. Pohlman and a son, Benjamin jewell of St. Louis.
There was not a landing from St. Louis to New Orleans which Capt. Jewell did not know and where he was not known by the rivermen of a previous generation. He was made a pilot in the days before the civil war when steamboating was in its greatest glory. Just before the outbreak of the war, he became a captain, serving on the hurricane deck until advancing age and the waning of the steamboat caused his retirement.
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Dec. 15, 1903
Capt. jewell's death occurred at the homw of his granddaughter, Mrs. John A. Pohlman of 902 Baugh avenue, East St. Louis. He is survived by Mrs. Pohlman and a son, Benjamin jewell of St. Louis.
There was not a landing from St. Louis to New Orleans which Capt. Jewell did not know and where he was not known by the rivermen of a previous generation. He was made a pilot in the days before the civil war when steamboating was in its greatest glory. Just before the outbreak of the war, he became a captain, serving on the hurricane deck until advancing age and the waning of the steamboat caused his retirement.
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Dec. 15, 1903
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