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Mechanical engineer and founder of Sewall Gears of St. Paul

Edward Sewall Jr., 82, of High Street, died Friday, July 22, 2005 at his home.
He was born in Bath on April 19, 1923, a son of Edward Sr. and Millicent F. Clifford Sewall. He was educated in the local schools and graduated from Morse High School in 1941. He attended Rensslear Poly Technical College in Albany, N.Y., and graduated with a degree in engineering from there, after serving in the U.S. Army during World War II.
On Oct. 21, 1950 he married Helen M. 'Ollie' Richards in California.
Mr. Sewall worked as an engineer in Alaska and New York for several years. He then worked as an engineer for Pacific Gas & Electric building a nuclear power plant in California, and from 1952-1954 for Stone & Webster in Hingham, Mass.
In 1954, he returned to Bath to work with his father in the family business, M.W. Sewall & Co. He served as its vice president from 1954-1976 and as president from 1976 until retiring in 1992.
He was a member of Grace Episcopal Church, and had served on the Bath planning board and Bath YMCA. He was also a member of the Bath Rotary and Bath Country Club.
He enjoyed golfing and in his youth, had the potential of turning professional. He also enjoyed boating, tennis, and travel.
He was predeceased by a sister, Patricia S. Pillsbury.
Surviving are his wife of 54 years; four sons, Edward 'Ned' Sewall of Arrowsic, Andrew C. Sewall of Bath, Philip R. Sewall of Durham, and Mark Sewall of West Bath; six grandchildren; and four nieces.⁵

Edward K. Sewall, a retired manager of Southern Pacific Lines, died Sunday in Skokie Valley Hospital.
Mr. Sewall, 62, a Skokie resident, was employed by the railroad company for 42 years, starting as a junior clerk and retiring in 1983 as manager of international traffic.
A Chicago native, Mr. Sewall was a Marine Corps veteran of World War II and the Korean War. He is survived by his wife, Patricia; a daughter, Kathleen Youngberg; three sons, Kenneth, Edward Jr. and Patrick; a sister, Mary Rose Picard, and two brothers, Robert and Andrew.³

North Conway, July 22. Eddie Sewall, seven years old, son of C. Sewall, boarding in Kirsage village, fell from the roof of a building yesterday, and received fatal injuries, dying this morning.⁴

GRANTED A DIVORCE FOR DESERTION
Mrs. Susan Sewall Secures Liberation From Her Husband.

Dissolute Habits of Arthur Sewall's Nephew Cause Him to Lose His Ship and His Wife.

BOSTON, Jan. 3 — The January session of the divorce court, Judge Blodgett, began this morning. There were forty-three cases on the uncontested docket. Several divorces were granted for desertion. Among these was that of Mrs. Susan Sewall against E. R. Sewall. Mr. Sewall is the nephew of Arthur Sewall, the famous shipbuilder of Bath, Me., and late candidate for Vice-President of the United States.

Mrs. Sewall, whose maiden name was Baker, was married in San Francisco in 1856. Sewall was a shipmaster, and his wife accompanied him for four years on his voyages in different parts of the world. Mrs. Sewall testified that her husband's habits of drinking lost him command of his vessel in 1892. In that year Mrs. Sewall visited her parents in Harwich in this State, and afterward she went with her husband to his home in Bath. They returned to Harwich and soon after Mr. Sewall went away professedly on business. Since that time his wife has seen him but once, and that was at the Adams House in this city in October, 1892. She heard of him in New Jersey and in San Francisco, where he had associations with other women. During this time Mrs. Sewall has lived at 212 Columbus avenue in this city and has supported herself by dressmaking. San Francisco Call, 4 January 1898.⁵

Vice president of the firm of Carson, Sewall and Company, wholesale grocers and cotton factors.⁷