2/10/2010:
Marshall H. Jewell was a name well-known throughout North Dakota, and especially in Bismarck.
Born in New York in 1857, Jewell moved to Bismarck in 1878. It was the town in which he and his wife would raise two boys, and it was a town he believed in, and he settled there for good.
Jewell began to concern himself with the forward progress of the area—especially with the newspaper business. This was a familiar field, since his father had run a newspaper during the outbreak of the civil war back in New York. Jewell followed in his father's footsteps and worked as the editor of the Bismarck Tribune for more than thirty years, becoming "its moving spirit."
Back in those days, there was both a daily and weekly Tribune. In those old newspapers, most articles had a flair for the dramatic, or at least for the editorial. Feuds in the city, feuds with other papers, and a driving political opinion were all common in the paper—yet, Jewell was well thought of, said to be the opposite of showy, and just full of optimism, vim and vigor. He was energetic and respected.
As much as Jewell lived by his newspaper, it might also have made him ill. On this date in 1911, Marshall H. Jewell died. Cause of death was an enlargement of the heart, which the Tribune reported was "due to overwork and over worry, due to the many incidental details of the management of an enterprise that demands the best of a man's efforts and labors."
His influence and impact were felt at the funeral. On the day he was buried, businesses around the city flew their flags at half mast. The church was packed, and in fact, too small for the large crowd that gathered in his memory.
And after his death, his staff wrote: "No eulogy is necessary for him beyond the work he has done for the city of Bismarck, for the state, and for his fellow citizens. History will place him in clear perspective. Time will give him the credit and honor he deserves, in his helping toward the upbuilding of a great commonwealth from a frontier. In the hearts and memories of his friends he will hold a place where love abides and loving recollections linger. He would have asked for nothing more."
Dakota Datebook written by Sarah Walker
The Bismarck Daily Tribune, Saturday Morning, February 11, 1911
The Bismarck Daily Tribune, Sunday Morning, February 12, 1911
http://history.nd.gov/archives/cities/bismarck.html
The Bismarck Daily Tribune, Tuesday, February 14, 1911