(From HISTORY OF MITCHELL AND WORTH COUNTIES, IOWA, 1883, Page 796)

C. F. Jewett was born in Maine, Aug. 19, 1836. When he was two and one half years old his parents moved to Wisconsin. He followed farming and lum­bering there. He came to Mitchell Co., Iowa, in the summer of 1869. In the spring of 1878 he moved to Worth coun­ty, where he had bought the southwest quarter of section 1, in Lincoln town­ship. In the fall of 1882 he sold that and purchased 240 acres on section 2 in the same township. In 1858 he married Cor­delia A. Bliss. She was born in Ver­mont June 20, 1839. They have six chil­dren-H. G., M. B., E. E., F. W., J. E. and O. R. Mr. Jewett is county super­visor and chairman of township board of trustees.

Transcribed by Gordon Felland, March 12, 2006