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1919 G.A.R. Grand Army of the Republic \"Aide de Camp\" Ribbon Col J.E. Ewell For Sale
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1919 G.A.R. Grand Army of the Republic \"Aide de Camp\" Ribbon Col J.E. Ewell:
$74.95
By the ribbon, Col. Ewell was the commander of the New York division of the GAR. This would have been a helper or \"Aide de Camp\" to him as commander during their annual \"National Encampment\" meeting.The bar is brass or plated and reads \"Aide de Camp\", and is stamped on the back (reversed) W & H CO Newark N. J. which is Whitehead & HoagThe ribbon reads: Staff Commander J. E. Ewell Dept. New York G. A. R. 1919-20The button back reads The Whitehead & Hoag Co. Buttons, Badges, Novelties and Signs Newark N. J.
A one of a kind item, there were likely only one Aide de Camp to the officers.Here is a memorial for Ewell:\"Col Joseph Emerson Ewell
Birth 16 Jan 1839
Alden, Erie County, New York, USA
Death 19 Jun 1924 (aged 85)
Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA
Burial
Alden Evergreen Cemetery
Alden, Erie County, New YorkJoseph E. Ewell was born January 16, 1839 in Alden. He was educated at Alfred Academy and Union College, graduating in 1860. He took an active role in the 1860 Lincoln presidential campaign.
Mr. Ewell joined the Union Army on September 18, 1861 as a 1st Lieutenant of the 52nd Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers. He was mustered out as a colonel.
In 1867 he was admitted to the bar as Attorney and Counselor at Law. Mr. Ewell served as Assistant District Attorney in 1869 and 1870. He served as Supervisor of the Town of Alden from 1879-1880. He also served as Erie County Clerk from 1884-1887.
In 1902 Colonel Ewell was called to be the Commandant of the Soldier\'s Home in Bath, New York. He served there for thirteen years.
Colonel Ewell owned much of the property in the village of Alden.
It was from his orchard land that Emerson, Irving and Park Streets were developed, and later land west of Crittenden Road, extending north to the village line, was purchased from the Ewell property.
Colonel and Mrs. Ewell contributed one-half the cost of the Presbyterian Church which stands on the corner of Broadway and Crittenden Road, and donated the land and the cost of the Ewell Free Library (about $27,000) as memorials to their only child, Florence Josephine.
Joseph E. Ewell died June 19, 1924 and is buried in the Alden Evergreen Cemetery.\"Another Bio (1904):\"EWELL, Joseph Emerson, lawyer, was born at Alden, Erie co., N. Y., Jan. 10, 1839, son of Dexter and Eliza (Wilson) Ewell. His father, a farmer, who afterward became an associate judge of Erie county, was remarkable for his energy, sound judgment, and executive ability. The first American ancestor was John Ewell, who emigrated from Scotland in 1751, at the age of seventeen, to Scituate, Mass., and later to Chesterfield, Mass. His wife was Deborah Bates, and their son James married Sarah Holbrook, their son Henry married Betsy Bancroft, and in company with his brother Samuel left Massachusetts in 1803 and journeyed to the Holland purchase in western New York, being among the first settlers of the town of Batavia, founded the year before. He was the grandfather of Joseph E. Ewell. The latter was educated at Alfred University and at Union College, where he was graduated in 1860. He enlisted in the civil war. serving as lieutenant of Co. 1. 52nd regiment of Ilinois volunteers, and afterward became captain of Co. E, in the 26th United States colored cavalry troop. He taught school in Buffalo, 1865-66, and being admitted to the bar in 1867, began praetice in that city. He was assistant U.S. attorney for the northern district of New York, 1869-70. He was supervisor for the town of Alden, N. Y., 1879-80, and in the latter year was chairman of the Erie county board of supervisors. He was county clerk for Erie county in 1883-85, and deputy county clerk in 1880-82 and 1886-87. Mr. Ewell has been an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and in 1899 he was chosen judge advocate of the department of New York state. As a lecturer, Mr. Ewell has earned a reputation which should he abandon the law, would sustain him handsomely. He was married in 1863 at Alden, N. Y., to Carrie Udell, daughter of Thomas Farnsworth, and has one daughter, Florence Josephine Ewell.\" H22
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