This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1YB.2ACI/784 Message Board Post: "Yesterday In Jewett", compiled & printed by the Jewett Bicentennial Committee, Jewett, Ohio; July 1977. Pg. 2, Thomas L. Jewett Thomas L. Jewett was born at "Lansdowne" in Hartford County, Maryland, probably sometime in 1810. He was a Quaker by birth, the son of John and Susanna Judge Jewett. He had an illustrious younger brother, Hugh Judge Jewett, a Zanesville lawyer, Ohio state senator and United States district attorney. Both men had reputations for the able handling of financial affairs. This led to their being retained as counsellors (sic) by various railroad companies. By the middle of the century they were deeply involved as offcials in the railway systems of Ohio. In 1844 Thomas Jewett first appears in the annuals of Harrison County. In that year he became prosecuting attorney and brought his bride to Cadiz to establish a home. They left Cadiz and moved to Steubenville in 1850; however, it appears that he remained active in Harrison County courts. Upon consolidation of different railway lines in 1868, Jewett was elected president of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and St.Louis Railroad and remained so until May 7, 1871. His brother Hugh was with him either as manager or vice president the greater part of the time. When Hugh was called to the presidency, Thomas resigned thus ending his railroad career in Ohio. He moved at this time to Philadelphia where he engaged in stock speculation until the time of his death. No one seems to know why the post office at Fairview was named after Thomas L. Jewett.