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{{Short description|American politician (1843–1924)}}
{{Infobox politician
|name = Edgar B. Jewett
|image = 1895jewetts.jpg
|caption = Portrait of Edgar B. Jewett
|birth_name = Edgar Boardman Jewett
|birth_date = December 14, 1843
|birth_place = [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]], U.S.
|residence =
|death_date = {{death date and age|1924|3|28|1843|12|14}}
|death_place = [[Clifton Springs, New York]], U.S.
|order =
|office = 42nd [[List of mayors of Buffalo, New York|Mayor of Buffalo]]
|term = 1895–1897
|predecessor = [[Charles F. Bishop]]
|successor = [[Conrad Diehl]]
|party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|religion =
|spouse = Elizabeth Foster Danforth, Augusta Elizabeth Fisher
|children = 4
|website =
|footnotes =<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael Rizzo|title=Through The Mayors' Eyes |year=2005 |publisher=Lulu |isbn=978-1-4116-3757-3 |pages=424}}</ref>
}}
'''Edgar Boardman Jewett''' (December 14, 1843 – March 28, 1924) was [[mayor]] of the city of [[Buffalo, New York]], United States, from 1895–1897. He was born in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]] on December 14, 1843. He died on March 28, 1924, while at [[Clifton Springs, New York]], and was buried in [[Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo|Forest Lawn Cemetery]].<ref name="bflo">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QJRUpyJiCXgC&pg=PA181|title= Through The Mayor's Eyes|year= 2005|author=Michael Rizzo|isbn=978-1-4116-3757-3| pages=180–181|publisher=Lulu }}</ref>
==Family==
In 1849, Jewett's family moved to [[Buffalo, New York]]. His father, John Cotton Jewett, established a company to manufacture [[refrigerator]]s and later other household conveniences including [[cooler|ice chest]]s, porcelain-lined coolers, [[water cooler]]s, toiletware, [[birdcage]]s, [[spittoon]]s, bathing apparatus, and hospital and laboratory equipment. Edgar married Elizabeth Foster Danforth on October 3, 1865. They had four children and lived at a home built at 210 Summer Street. Elizabeth died in 1905, and Jewett remarried to Augusta Elizabeth Fisher in 1909.
==National Guard service==
In 1861, Jewett joined the [[New York National Guard]] as a private in Company C of the Seventy-fourth Regiment, under the leadership of [[William Findlay Rogers]]. He returned to Buffalo as first sergeant on June 29, 1865 and was commissioned first lieutenant. The last position he achieved as a member of the New York National Guard was that of [[brigadier general]] of the 8th Brigade, on March 29, 1884.
==Public office==
On March 1, 1894, Mayor [[Charles F. Bishop]] appointed Jewett to the Board of Police Commissioners for a term of five years. Jewett was elected mayor on November 6, 1894, as the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] candidate. During his term, [[Fosdick-Masten Park High School|Masten Park High School]] and 11 other schools were built. On March 1, 1897, he signed documents making the [[Buffalo & Erie County Public Library|Buffalo Library]] free. He also signed a bill providing a piece of park property for the [[Buffalo History Museum]] building. He was not chosen as the Republican candidate at the 1896 party convention.<ref name="bflo"/>
==Industrialist==
Jewett was president and general manager of the John C. Jewett & Son company from 1885–1917. From 1917–1924, he continued his position with the Jewett Refrigerator Company at 27 Chandler Street. He became vice-president of the [[Cary Safe Company]], and was elected president of Columbia National Bank of Buffalo in 1897.<ref name="bflo"/>
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