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Dewart, Lewis – Dewey, John J

Dewart, Lewis

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1831 to 1833.

Dewart, William L

lawyer, congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a member of the thirty-fifth congress from Pennsylvania.

Dewees, William Potts

physician, author, was born Nov. 5, 1768, in Pottsgrove, Pa. He was a popular physician of. Philadelphia, and professor of obstetrics in the university of Pennsylvania. He was the author of Medical Essays; Physical and Medical Treatment of Children; System of Midwifery; and Practice of Medicine. He died May 18, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Deweese, John T

lawyer, soldier, congressman, was born June 4, 1835, in Arkansas. He entered the volunteer army in 1861; promoted to the rank of colonel in 1863; and after the war was commissioned a lieutenant in the regular army, and stationed in North Carolina.

After holding the ofuce of register in bankruptcy for a time he was elected a representative from North Carolina to the fortieth congress, and was re-elected to the forty-first congress.

Dewey, Charles Augustus

lawyer, jurist, was born March 13, 1793, in Williamstown, Mass. He served as United States district attorney from 1830 till 1837, when he was appointed the fifth judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts. He died Aug. 22, 1866, in Northampton, Mass.

Dewey, Chester

botanist, educator, author, was born Oct. 25, 1784, in Sheffield, Mass. He was a botanist who as an educator was connected with various colleges, and lastly with the university of Rochester. Besides a History of Herbaceous Plants of Massachusetts, he wrote an elaborate monograph on the Carices of North America, the result of many years' labor. He died in 1867.

Dewey, Daniel

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 29, 1766, in Sheffield, Mass. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts in 1813 and 1814, when he resigned; and was appointed judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts in 1814. He died June 3, 1815.

Dewey, Frederic Perkins

chemist, was born Oct. 4, 1855, in Hartford, Conn. He was appointed in 1882 curator of Metallurgy in the United States national museum in Washington.

Dewey, Henry S

lawyer, was born Nov. 9, 1856, in Hanover, N. H. He has attained eminence as a lawyer of Boston, Mass.

Dewey, Israel Otis

soldier, legislator, was born March 9, 1824, in Berlin, Vt. In 1860 he was a member of the New Hampshire legislature; and a justice of the peace for many years. He served in the civil war and attained the rank of major. He died May 12, 1888, in Boston, Mass.

Dewey, James Alfred

educator, reformer, was born Nov. 10, 1860, in Armenia, Pa. He graduated in 1882 from the state normal school of Mansfield, Pa.; and subsequently from the medical department of the university of Michigan. He has been a successful educator and reformer; and is now superintendent of schools at Wanamie, Pa.

Dewey, John J

railroad president, was born April 8, 1846, in Quechee, Vt.

In 1894 he became president of the Woodstock railway.