From the Chicago American newspaper:

Obituary Dr. J.S. Jewell

Dr James Stewart Jewell, who had obtained great popularity and an eminent position in the medical profession, died Tuesday at his residence No.1239 Wabash Avenue. His health had been failing for several years, and his death was the result of a complication of disorders.

He was born Sept. 8, 1837 near Galena, Ill. and was the son of John McDonald Jewell and Margaret M. Jewell. While his early years were spent on a farm he gained a knowledge of a wide range of studies, both of a scientific and metaphysical nature. He was given an early education in the schools of Galena and in 1855 he entered the office of S.M. Mitchell, Williamson County, for the purpose of studying medicine. In the winter of 1858-59 he attended a course of lectures at the Rush Medical College, of this city and the following season graduated from the Chicago Medical College. He immediately opened an office in Williamson County, but soon after accepted a position as contract surgeon in the army. In the fall of 1862 he was called to fill the place of demonstrator of anatomy at the Chicago Medical College, and the following year was elected to the chair of professor of anatomy. He was deeply interested in the study of scientific subjects and in the spring of 1868 resigned his professorship to give a course of lectures before the students of the Garrett Biblical Institute on "The Relations Between Science and Speculative Thought". During 1869 and 1870 he traveled extensively in the old world and returning established himself at Evanston. The same year he resumed his lectures at the Chicago Medical College and in 1871 was appointed professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases at that institution. This chair was filled by him to the time of his death. A quarterly journal devoted to a discussion of nervous and mental diseases was started by him in 1874.

For many years Dr. Jewell had held an undisputed position as one of the best authorities in the U.S. in his knowledge of the diseases of which he made special study. He was a member of numerous neurological societies including the American Neurological Society, the American Medical Association, the International Medical Association, the Illinois State Medical Society, the Chicago Academy of Sciences and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences. He was also Vice President of the International Medical Congress to be held at Washington next fall.

Dr. Jewell was married Dec. 22, 1864 to Miss Mary C. Kennedy of Nashville, Ill. and of his children four are living. His wife died November 26, 1883. The funeral services will be held at 7:30 o'clock today, at Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church on Indiana Ave.