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Harold M. Sewall of Bath, Me., Republican National Committeeman from that State, died yesterday at 301 East Nineteenth Street after a slight operation. Mr. Sewall was the son of the late Arthur Sewall. who was Democratic candidate for the Vice Presidency in 1896 and head of the famous shipbuilding family of that name.
The recent State campaign in Maine was largely in the hands of Mr. Sewall. He came from Bath to New York several days ago. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Camilla Ashe Sewall, daughter of the late Richard Porter Ashe of San Francisco; by two daughters, Mrs. Walter E. Edge, wife of United States Senator Edge of New Jersey, and Mrs. John W. Williams of Baltimore; also by two sons. Loyall Sewall. 625 Firm Avenue, and Arthur Sewall of Bath. A brother, William D. Sewall, is President of the Bath National Bank. Arrangements for the funeral have not been completed.
Mr. Sewall was Consul General at Samoa in the late eighties and opposed the German pretensions there. He was attache of the commission which negotiated the Berlin Treaty of 1889 for the joint government of Samoa, and following his reappointment as Consul General he secured the site for the naval station at Pago Pago. He was Minister to Hawaii in 1897 and the next year received the transfer of the sovereignty of the islands, acting afterward as special agent of the United States until the organization of the territory. He had been a member of both Houses of the Maine Legislature, and in 1921 was on the Advisory Committee of the Conference for Limitation of Armament.⁵

Harold Marsh Sewall, 71, of Thornton Oaks and New York, died April 9, 2000, in New York City after a long illness.
He was born in New York and attended Westminster School in Simsbury, Conn. He graduated from Menlo Park School in Palo Alto, Calif., and Bowdoin College in 1951.
He was a retired investment banker and commercial real estate agent in New York.
Mr. Sewall served in the Marine Corps from 1946 to 1948 and was discharged as a corporal. He was a first lieutenant in the Army Transportation Corps from 1951 to 1954 and served in Korea.
He was a member of St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York.
At Bowdoin College, he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, the varsity basketball team and the glee club and choir. He was also an admissions aide and campaign worker for the college.
He was the friend of Margery Rice of New York.
Surviving are three sisters, Nancy Sewall Brett of Framingham, Mass., Cynthia Sewall Janeway Coates of Phippsburg and Sallie Lane Sewall Comey of Pittsboro, N.C; and eight nieces and nephews.⁴

Harriett E. Sewall Tucker of Enfield died Wednesday at Parkway Pavilion Healthcare in Enfield. She was 95.
She was born in Somerville, Mass., and lived in Worcester before moving to Enfield seven years ago.
She was a member of Enfield Congregational Church.
She leaves a daughter and son-in- law, Barbara and F. Russell Meyer; two granddaughters; and three great-grandchildren. Her husband, E. Earle Tucker, died in 1991.
A memorial service will be held Jan. 9 at 11 a.m. at Enfield Congregational Church. Burial will be private in Hope Cemetery, Worcester.⁴

ISLAND FALLS — Harriett (Sewall) Harmon, 96, wife of the late George Henry Harmon, died at a Houlton hospital, Aug. 22, 1984. Mrs. Harmon was born in Island Falls, Aug. 6, 1888, the daughter of pioneer settlers, William Wingate and Mary (Sherman) Sewall. When they married in 1907, Mr. Harmon was principal of the high school in Penacook, N.H. They also lived in Warner, N.H., and Fitchburg, Mass., during World War I. In 1918, they returned to Warner, where he was superintendent of schools. He accepted like positions in the Andover, Raymond and Suncook, N.H., school districts. They retired to Warner, where Mrs. Harmon resided, until she returned to the Sewall homestead in Island Falls to live with her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice V. Cunningham. Mrs. Harmon was an active member of the church, serving in many communities. For several years she was librarian of Pillsbury Free Library of Warner, N.H. She is survived by a daughter. Mrs. Wilbur (Harriett) H. Miller of Stamford, Conn; two sons. Donald Sewall Harmon of Island Falls and William Wingate Harmon of Raymond, N.H; 10 grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her son, George Emlen. Funeral services will be 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, at Whittier Memorial Congregational Church in Island Foils, with the Rev. Ernest Ireland officiating. There will be no visiting hours. Burial will be in Island Falls Cemetery. Memorial gifts may [be] sent to Whittier Memorial Congregational Church, Island Falls.⁵

"The world instinctively pays homage to the man whose self-reliant nature and inherent force of character enable him to rise above his fellows, and of this type is Harry B. Sewall, whose broad experience has enabled him to direct successfully the many interests of the Puget Sound Power & Light Company of Bellingham, a corporation which has exerted a dynamic force in the development of northwestern Washington. His life has been devoted to the study of the public utilities, which have become almost as necessary as the daily food supply to the communities they serve.
Mr. Sewall is a native of Massachusetts, and he attended the Institute of Technology at Boston in the pursuit of his higher education. In 1899 he entered the employ of Stone & Webster and gradually worked his way through the various departments of the business, at length becoming manager of their interests in Whatcom and Skagit counties. In 1918 he was sent from Texas to this district, which comprises twenty-five cities and towns, and has since made his headquarters in Bellingham.
The Puget Sound Power & Light Company, of which Mr. Sewall is manager, is the outgrowth of the following corporations: The Whatcom County Railway & Light Company, the Fairhaven Street Railway Company, the Lake Whatcom Street Railway Company, the Fairhaven & New Whatcom Street Railway Company, the New Whatcom, Thompson & Houston Electric Company, the Bellingham Bay Electric Street Railway Company, the Northern Railway Improvement, the Bellingham Bay Improvement Company, the Fairhaven Electric Light, Power & Motor Company, the Bellingham Bay Gas Company and other properties. In May, 1891, the Fairhaven Street Railway Company was formed and in August of that year the Lake Whatcom line was promoted. The men responsible for these projects were Edward J. Cosgrove, J. E. Baker, Morris McCarty, C. J. Cook and Hugh Eldridge. The last named was elected president of the corporation and served until 1895, when he resigned. The lighting plant was started in 1888, and the Bellingham Bay Gas Company was organized June 9, 1890. The parent corporation is building the Baker River plant in Skagit county and one hundred thousand horse power will be distributed from this station.
A large percentage of the power used in the district is generated by the company, which has maintained a rural power line for a period of seventeen years. It serves several thousand homes in Whatcom county and has been one of the most potent forces in the development of the great poultry industry, which has brought prosperity to many residents of this section of the state. The company has led in the work of upbuilding the rural communities of Washington and its operations have been of inestimable value to the state. The corporation has over three thousand gas customers in Bellingham and furnishes light and power to more than twenty thousand patrons in the district which is comprised of Whatcom, Skagit and Island counties. It controls twenty-seven miles of street railway in Bellingham, and one of its auxiliaries, the Pacific Northwest Traction Company, operates trains hourly between Bellingham and Mount Vernon, Washington, maintaining express and freight service. The two companies have a combined payroll of over four hundred thousand dollars, and their taxes amount to seventy five thousand dollars per year, while their employes number over three hundred. The Puget Sound Power & Light Company maintains its own sales organization and that its bonds and preferred stock are regarded as safe and profitable investments is proven by the fact that the corporation has four hundred stockholders in Whatcom county. The main offices are located in a substantial three-story building at the corner of Elk and Holly streets in Bellingham, and the company also has a Union station, from which fifty-five automobile busses are operated.
To the many complex problems presented to him daily for solution Mr. Sewall brings the mental alertness, broad vision, business acumen and administrative power of the true executive, and his labors have been of far-reaching scope and importance and most beneficial in their results. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner and exemplifies in his life the beneficent teachings of the organization. He is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and also belongs to the Rotary, Country, Cougar and Kulshan Clubs of Bellingham, while his political support is given to the republican party".
Lottie Roeder Roth, The History of Whatcom County. Chicago: Pioneer Historical Publishing Company, 1926. Vol. 2. pp. 776-777.

Sentence of a Military Commission.
Lieutenant Hartley W. Sewall, of the United States revenue service, has been tried by a commission at Norfolk, Va., on the charge of "malfeasance in the discharge of his duty," in permitting liquor to be smuggled into the department of Virginia and North Carolina, and also on the charges he pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to be cashiered and confined in the penitentiary for ten years. Henry Clay Rodgers, master of the schooner L.B. Copperwaite, from which the liquor was landed, was also tried, and pleading guilty, was fined $2,000, and in default of its payment to be confined at hard labor for sixteen month. General Butler has approved the sentence in both cases. Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), 5 July 1864.