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On September 5 1877, the new University of Colorado opened in Boulder. University President Joseph Addison Sewall. MD. and his daughter. Ann M. Sewall. his assistant, led 44 students in a procession. Governor John L Routt and the University trustees—along with a parade of local citizens, firemen. Masons, and a brass band—rode from the town to the new campus for the opening ceremonies.
Three-story "Old Main,” the only University building, also housed a preparatory high school. Dr and Mrs. Sewall and their two daughters lived in the northwest part of the first floor of Old Main.
Dr. Joseph A. Sewall—a 47-year-old native of Scarborough. Maine, who had received his MD in 1852 and his PhD in I860, both degrees from Harvard—was professor of chemistry and metallurgy (1877-1887) at the University of Colorado, but he also taught natural philosophy, biology, botany, physics, pedagogy, political economy, astronomy, physiology, and logic. Dr. Sewall had been professor of chemistry at Illinois Normal University from 1860 until he moved to Boulder in 1877, in part because of his health. Tom Sherlock, Colorado’s Healthcare Heritage: A Chronology of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.³

He was a private in Company G of the 27th Maine Volunteer Infantry.⁵

Pvt Company D - 17th Regiment of Virginia Infantry CSA. The son of Nicholas Lewis Sewell and Sarah M. West Sewell enlisted on 24 May 1862 at Orange Courthouse. He was wounded on the left side, near his heart, at the Battle of Second Manassas on 30 August 1862. He was treated at a Warrenton hospital, then transferred to Orange. He returned in December, but was out again in late 1863 and the middle of 1864. He was paroled at Appomattox on 9 April 1865. He married Roberta and settled in Fairfax County. The land he is buried on once belonged to his father, who donated it to the church for the cemetery.⁵

He was the first captain of the Edward Sewall, a four-masted steel barque built in 1899 by Arthur Sewall & Co., Bath, ME, at a cost of $145,000. He was also the first captain of the William P. Frye launched in 1901, he also owned a 2/128 part of the ship.⁶

Joseph O. Sewall Sr., 74, of 3 Farragut Rd., died today (Aug. 27, 1965) in Muhlenberg Hospital, where he had been a patient for three weeks.
Born in Evanstown, Ill., he had lived in South Plainfield for 30 years before moving to his late address four years ago. He was retired from the Small Arms Department of the Raritan Arsenal, where he had been employed for 15 years. He was the husband of the late Mary Bremble Sewall, and a Navy veteran of World War 1.
He is survived by a son, Joseph O. Sewall Jr. of Plain-field; three daughters, Mrs. Lida S. Baehr and Miss Eva L. Sewall, both at home, and Mrs. William W. McGhee of Thousand Oaks, Calif; two sisters, Miss Mary Sewall of Pacific Grove, Calif., and Mrs. Ruth Payne of Cambridge, Md; and four grandchildren.
The funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday in the Memorial Funeral Home. The Rev. William A. Mierop, pastor of the Hydewood Park Baptist Church, will officiate. Interment will be in Lake Nelson Memorial Park, New Market.⁶

He was employed as District Storekeeper for the Northern Pacific Railway Company in St. Paul. In retirement he lived in Daytona Beach, Florida.²

Joseph T. "Tom" Sewall Jr., 69, died Monday at the Maine Veteran's Home in Augusta.
He was born here, a son of Joseph T. and Gara Dunton Sewall, attended local schools and graduated from Boothbay Region High School in 1948. He served in the Army during the Korean War. Later, he was a yacht captain in Florida until he returned to live in Boothbay Harbor. He worked in local shipyards until accepting a position in the maintenance department of the Maine Department of Marine Resources. He retired in 1990.
Surviving are his wife of 35 years, Marilynn Berry Sewall of Boothbay Harbor; two sons, Kenneth of Schroon Lake, N.Y., and James of Boothbay Harbor; one daughter, Janice Sewall of Boothbay Harbor; and five grandchildren.
Visiting hours will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Simmons, Harrington and Hall Funeral Home, Boothbay, where a funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday with the Rev. Dan McNutt and Al Roberts officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery, Boothbay. Portland Press Herald (ME) - July 21, 1999.⁴

Joseph Sewall Jr., 28, of Old Town, Maine, son of Maine Senate President Joseph Sewall, died Friday after becoming ill at his job as a cook. A spokesman for the town marshal's office said there was no suspicion of foul play, but an autopsy was ordered for Saturday. The spokesman said Sewall was taken to the home of a friend where he appeared to recover. His body was found about 4 a.m. Officials would not speculate as to the cause of death.⁴