New Orleans Republican

The New Postmaster General.

Hon. Marshall Jewell was born in Winchester, New Hampshire, October 24, 1825.

His father, Pliny Jewell, of Hartford, was senior member of the firm of P. Jewell & Sons, tanners and curriers, and at an early age young Marshall was put to work in his father's tannery, where he remained for some years, until he went to Boston to perfect himself in the business of a currier.

In 1847 he moved to Hartford and worked for two years in his father's currier shop.

He then relinquished the currier business and learned the art of telegraphing, and, being an expert operator, was engaged in an office in Rochester, New York, from which place he went to Ohio, and afterward to Columbia, Tennessee. After the election of General Tyler to the Presidency Mr. Jewell, who was a warm supporter of the Whig nominee, removed to Jackson, Mississippi, and was subsequently elected general superintendent of the telegraph line between Nashville and New Orleans. He returned to New York in 1849, and the following year entered into partnership with his father in the tanning and belting business, and by his energy and skill soon enlarged the business of the house, and gained for it a high reputation. He visited Europe in 1859 and 1860 on business connected with the firm, and in 1865 he again went to Europe, extending his travels to Egypt and the Holy Land.

Mr. Jewell has never been an active politician, but he has always been in sympathy with the Republican party. Although comparatively unknown as a politician, he was elected Governor of Connecticut in 1869 and his record for that year was so good that in 1871 he was again elected to the same position, and re-elected the following year, thus serving for three terms in the highest office which the citizens of his native State could confer upon him. On the twentieth of May, 1873, the President nominated Governor Jewell to succeed Hon. James L. Orr as minister to Russia, and in this high office he has exhibited marked ability.