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 | | At the age of fifteen years the subject of this sketch moved to Wheaton, Du Page county, Illinois, and commenced farming, which he continued in that section until 1856, in which year, leasing his farm, he removed with his family to Grand Rapids, Michigan, and embarked in the lumber and shingle trade. |
 | | Jewell was engaged in this business, he returned to Illinois and settled on his farm in Du Page county, and there resided until 1861, when he removed to New York, being there appointed agent for D.M. Osborn’s Reaper and Mower, to proceed to the Pacific coast. |
 | | ALVA JEWELL, son of the above, was born in Wheaton, Du Page county, Illinois, August 2, 1847, and accompanied his mother across the plains in 1862 to California. |
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