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James Sewall was prepared for college at the high school in his native town. At Bowdoin he persued the engineering course and was one of the few upon whom the college has conferred the degree of civil engineer. After graduation with high honours, he entered at once upon his chosen profession. He was employed for two years in township surveys in northern Maine; in 1879 he was assistant engineer of the sewage works at Memphis, Tennessee. During the next two years, as assistant to the late Colonel George E. Waring of Newport Rhode Island, he planned and supervised the construction of the sewage system at Norfolk, Virginia and perform similar tasks at Birmingham, Alabama and other southern towns. As engineer of the Drainage Construction Company of New York City he built the sewage works of Keene, New Hampshire. In 1884 he became instructor in sanitary engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a position he resigned on account of ill-health in the fall of 1885. Returning to his native town, he entered the employment of Pingree & Coe owners and managers of timberlands, and for fourteen years was engaged in topographical and township surveys, a series that gradually covered much of the northern portion of the State. On the death of Mr Coe in 1899, he gave up engineering work and assumed charge of some four million acres of timberlands belonging to that and other estates, having his office in Bangor.⁴

Jaynel Louis Sewall, formerly of Walnut Creek, died peacefully on October 27 in beautiful Bend, Ore. She is survived by her sons, Jim & Ed Hatlen and 5 great grandkids.⁴