Theodore Frelinghuysen Jewell (August 5, 1844 – July 26, 1932) was a

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of the United States Navy.

Naval career

Jewell was appointed an acting midshipman on November 29, 1861, when he entered the United States Naval Academy. His class of 1865 graduated early on November 22, 1864. He served on the USS ''Colorado'', at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., and at the U.S. Naval Academy. During the Civil War while still at the Naval Academy, in the summer of 1863 when the nation's capital was threatened by General

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's forces, he was in command of a fleet of howitzers at the US Naval Yard for the defense of Washington, D.C. Jewell was involved in peacekeeping activities from the in Seoul, Korea, Panama in 1872, and Hawaii in 1874, during the election of King Kalākaua, to negotiate the duty-free exportation of sugar to the United States. A riot occurred on election day and marines and sailors from the ''Tuscarora'' and the USS ''Portsmouth'' landed to restore order. In 1879 he was executive officer of the frigate . From January 1893 to February 1896 he was superintendent of the Naval Gun Factory at the Washington Navy Yard. Jewell served with Admiral Dewey at the Battle of Manila Bay and later commanded the European squadron of the American Fleet in March 1904 when he was made a

. He retired in November 1904.

Dates of rank

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: July 16, 1862 * Ensign: November 1, 1866 * Lieutenant: March 12, 1868 * Lieutenant Commander: March 26, 1869 *

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: January 26, 1885 *

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: February 1, 1898 *

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: March 15, 1904

Person life

He was the son of Thomas and Eleanor (Spencer) Jewell, born in Washington, D.C., on August 5, 1844. On June 15, 1871, he married Elizabeth Lindsay Poor, daughter of rear admiral Charles Henry Poor. They had one son Commander Charles T. Jewell (1872–1929). Admiral Jewell died July 26, 1932, at his residence in Washington, D.C. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Theodore Frelinghuysen Jewell House

Gallery

File:Fourteen Retired Flag Officers.jpg, Jewell is on the right in the front row in this photograph of 13 retired U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps flag officers taken c. 1923. File:Flag officers Rear Admiral George C. Remey birthday 1926.jpg, Jewell is seated second from the right in this photo of retired flag officers taken at the 85th birthday party of Rear Admiral

George C. Remey George Collier Remey (August 10, 1841 – February 10, 1928) was a rear admiral of the United States Navy, serving in the Civil War and the Spanish–American War. Early life George Collier Remey was born at Burlington, Iowa on August 10, 184 ...

on August 10, 1926.

References

* T.F. Jewell, "The United States Naval Gun Factory", '' Harpers Monthly'', Vol 89, Issue 530, July 1894, pp. 251–261. * The Morgan Report, the US Senate investigation into the events surrounding the Hawaiian Revolution of 1893.

External links

Summary of Jewell's Testimony - The Morgan Report
at morganreport.org
Cornell University Making of America
at cdl.library.cornell.edu {{DEFAULTSORT:Jewell, Theodore Frelinghuysen 1844 births 1932 deaths Union Navy officers American military personnel of the Spanish–American War United States Navy rear admirals United States Naval Academy alumni Burials at Arlington National Cemetery People from Washington, D.C. People of Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War