Named US Army Civil War Amputation Surgical Set

Updated September 3, 2026

Made by Maw of London. Named to Dr. M.J. Martin US Army Surgeon during the Civil War, following his death the set was passed on to Dr. E.L. Jewell an early pioneer of medicine practicing out of Shoshoni Wyoming Territory. Emory Lee Jewell was born on July 5, 1875, to William Wallace Jewell and Mary Isabel Jewell in Pine Island, Minnesota. As a young man, Jewell earned a medical degree from the University of Minnesota before heading west to Casper, Wyoming. In 1904, Dr. Jewell moved to the bustling little town of Lost Cabin at the request of J.B. Oakie. It was here that he met his future wife, Livia Amanda Willoughby. The couple was married in Lost Cabin on March 28, 1905. Dr. Jewell had a practice in a room at the Lost Cabin Hotel, but greener pastures beckoned 25 miles to the southwest with the advancing tracks of the Chicago North Western Railroad. The young couple moved to Shoshoni in September 1905. Dr. Jewell and his brother Scott opened Jewell Pharmacy on the west side of Shoshonis Main Street in 1906. Business was picking up as thousands of homesteaders gathered in Shoshoni in anticipation of the opening of the Wind River Reservation to homesteading in August 1906. Dr. Jewells office was on the first floor of a building adjacent to the pharmacy. On July 19, 1907, the couple had their only child, a daughter, Isabel, named after Dr. Jewells mother. Dr. Jewell was a tireless physician, making local house calls in Shoshoni, or taking the train to Moneta, and Arminto to the east when a telegram, or later a telephone call, indicated someone in need of his services. He also served people in the newly built town of Riverton and had hospital privileges at Bishop Randall Hospital in Lander. He even took the treacherous route over Birdseye Pass to Thermopolis, Gebo, and Worland when he was needed before the railroad and then the highway cut through the Wind River Canyon. A fire destroyed the entire east side of Main Street in 1908, forcing many businesses to close, but others to build again, this time with more permanent brick structures. The Jewell Pharmacy was untouched, but the brothers interest began to wane. Dr. Jewell had a thriving practice as one of the only physicians outside Thermopolis or Lander in Fremont County, aside from Dr. Tonkin in Riverton. The brothers let the pharmacy go, on February 19, 1909, the First National Bank of Thermopolis foreclosed on the building, and Ira E. Jones took possession of the property. During Dr. Jewells long practice in Shoshoni, he treated dozens and dozens of gunshot wounds, but none more poignant and upsetting than the one that occurred just four months after he and Scott closed the pharmacy.

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