(Cemetery lists his first name as "Jessie")∼Son of Edgar Herman Jewell, Sr. and Mary Tallulah Dickson Jewell Loudermilk.
Brother of:
Mary Jewell
Edgar Herman Jewell, Jr.
Freeman Jewell
Margaret Jewell
Step-son of Leonard Cranford Loudermilk.
Husband of Anna Louise Dorough whom he married on 3 MAR 1928.
Father of Patricia Jewell Prince and two other daughters.
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Credited with making Gainesville, Georgia the "Poultry Capital of the World".
Studied civil engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Alabama.
Founder of J.D. Jewell, the largest integrated chicken producer in the world, opening its own hatchery in 1940, followed by its processing plant in 1941 setting the standard for poultry processors and its trademark frozen chicken.
Founder and first president of the National Broiler Couuncil
President of the Southeastern Poultry and Egg Association
US delegate to the 1951 World Poultry Congress
President of the Geoergia Chamber of Congress
Established a scholarship fund at Brenau College and endowed the buildings for biology and home economics where his mother was an art teacher.
Brother of:
Mary Jewell
Edgar Herman Jewell, Jr.
Freeman Jewell
Margaret Jewell
Step-son of Leonard Cranford Loudermilk.
Husband of Anna Louise Dorough whom he married on 3 MAR 1928.
Father of Patricia Jewell Prince and two other daughters.
= = = = = = =
Credited with making Gainesville, Georgia the "Poultry Capital of the World".
Studied civil engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Alabama.
Founder of J.D. Jewell, the largest integrated chicken producer in the world, opening its own hatchery in 1940, followed by its processing plant in 1941 setting the standard for poultry processors and its trademark frozen chicken.
Founder and first president of the National Broiler Couuncil
President of the Southeastern Poultry and Egg Association
US delegate to the 1951 World Poultry Congress
President of the Geoergia Chamber of Congress
Established a scholarship fund at Brenau College and endowed the buildings for biology and home economics where his mother was an art teacher.
(Cemetery lists his first name as "Jessie")∼Son of Edgar Herman Jewell, Sr. and Mary Tallulah Dickson Jewell Loudermilk.
Brother of:
Mary Jewell
Edgar Herman Jewell, Jr.
Freeman Jewell
Margaret Jewell
Step-son of Leonard Cranford Loudermilk.
Husband of Anna Louise Dorough whom he married on 3 MAR 1928.
Father of Patricia Jewell Prince and two other daughters.
= = = = = = =
Credited with making Gainesville, Georgia the "Poultry Capital of the World".
Studied civil engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Alabama.
Founder of J.D. Jewell, the largest integrated chicken producer in the world, opening its own hatchery in 1940, followed by its processing plant in 1941 setting the standard for poultry processors and its trademark frozen chicken.
Founder and first president of the National Broiler Couuncil
President of the Southeastern Poultry and Egg Association
US delegate to the 1951 World Poultry Congress
President of the Geoergia Chamber of Congress
Established a scholarship fund at Brenau College and endowed the buildings for biology and home economics where his mother was an art teacher.
Brother of:
Mary Jewell
Edgar Herman Jewell, Jr.
Freeman Jewell
Margaret Jewell
Step-son of Leonard Cranford Loudermilk.
Husband of Anna Louise Dorough whom he married on 3 MAR 1928.
Father of Patricia Jewell Prince and two other daughters.
= = = = = = =
Credited with making Gainesville, Georgia the "Poultry Capital of the World".
Studied civil engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Alabama.
Founder of J.D. Jewell, the largest integrated chicken producer in the world, opening its own hatchery in 1940, followed by its processing plant in 1941 setting the standard for poultry processors and its trademark frozen chicken.
Founder and first president of the National Broiler Couuncil
President of the Southeastern Poultry and Egg Association
US delegate to the 1951 World Poultry Congress
President of the Geoergia Chamber of Congress
Established a scholarship fund at Brenau College and endowed the buildings for biology and home economics where his mother was an art teacher.
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