The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., November 11, 1932, page 1

ANOTHER PIONEER PASSES AWAY
Lived in White Salmon Fifty-Eight Years

     A.H. Jewett, White Salmon pioneer, passed away at his home "The Jewett Farm", in White Salmon on November 7th, where he had resided for the past 58 years.
     Mr. Jewett was born at Adlin, Ill., November 4, 1845 and had just passed his eighty-seventh birthday 3 days before his death.
     He grew up in Illinois and during the Civil War, fired with the patriotism of youth, he enlisted twice, in 1864 but was honorably discharge as his papers show that he was five feet, five inches high. However, in February 1865, to use his own explanation, they were very shy of men and he was accepted and saw active service until the war ended and he was mustard out at Memphis, Tenn. He served in Company H. 153 Reg. Illinois and Company B 132nd Illinois Infantry.
     He returned to Antioch, Illinois and in 1866 he located at Sparta, Wisc. where he engaged in the nursery business until 1874 when he and his wife came to the Pacific coast and settled at White Salmon, where he engaged in the nursery business until 1895.
     Among some of Mr. Jewett's activities was the laying out of the original town site of White Salmon.
     He contributed much of his time and money and many parcels of land to civic use.
     He was a charter member of the Canby Post G. A. R. of Hood River, the Grange and Odd Fellows of White Salmon.
     He leaves a daughter, Mrs. James R. Thompson, of Portland, Ore..

The Hood River News, Hood River, OR., November 18, 1932, page 6
"White Salmon"
Happenings of the Week

     A.H. Jewett, White Salmon pioneer, passed away at his home "The Jewett Farm," in White Salmon on November 7, where he had resided for the past 58 years. Mr. Jewett was born at Adlin, Ill., November 4, 1845, and had just passed his 87th birthday three days before his death. Among some of Mr. Jewett's activities was the laying out of the original townsite of White Salmon.

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