Charles A. Jewett Biography

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JEWETT, CHARLES A., was born in Newark, Licking county, Ohio, February 7, 1848.  
He attended school until seventeen years old and then commenced work in his 
father's grocery store, where he remained until 1870, at which time he removed 
to Kansas City and went into the wholesale grocery business by himself.  At the 
end of two years he sold and went to Independence, Kan., where he engaged in the 
same business until 1875, when he disposed of it and during the succeeding seven 
years traveled for wholesale grocery houses in Chicago and New York.  In July, 
1882, he opened a grocery house in Aberdeen, S. D., in company with his brother, 
Harvey, who came there at that time.  In March, 1883, he went to Aberdeen to 
reside, but in June, 1888, removed to Sioux Falls, where he has since resided. 
The firm of Jewett Brothers & Jewett at that time bought the Ward & Frick 
wholesale grocery business in Sioux Falls and commenced business on an enlarged 
scale.  In March, 1893, established a branch house at Sheldon, Iowa.  This firm 
was one of the first if not the first strictly wholesale house in Dakota. In 
1884 it shipped the first carload of sugar into Aberdeen that was ever shipped 
into Dakota. In 1897 it shipped in two hundred and forty carloads of sugar and 
transacted business upward of $1,200,000 during the year.

Mr. Jewett is an active participant in political matters and was president of 
the Sioux Falls Daily Press Company for two years. He is noted for his energy 
and persistence in carrying out his projects in whatever he undertakes, and is 
not only a good business man but a good citizen.