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Dewey, Louis Marinus – Dexter, William Henry

Dewey, Louis Marinus

genealogist, was born Aug. 27, 1865, in Westfield, Mass. He is the author of a genealogy of the Dewey family.

Dewey, Mary E

author, was born in Sheffield, Mass. She has translated George Sand's Miller of Angibault, and edited The Life and Letters of Catherine M. Sedgwick.

Dewey, Melvil

librarian, author, was born Dec. 10, 1851, in Adams Centre, N. Y. He is the librarian of Columbia college and director of the New York state library. He is the author of Library School Rules; and The Decimal Classification and Relation Index.

Dewey, Net Son

governor. He was the first governor of Wisconsin after it became a state, serving as such from 1848 to 1851.

Dexter, Franklin

lawyer, state legislator, was born Nov. 5, 1793, in Charlestown, Mass. He was elected to both branches of the state legislature. served as United States district attorney from 1841 till 1845, and was re-appointed by President Taylor in 1849. He died Aug. 14, 1857, in Beverly, Mass.

Dexter, Henry

sculptor, was born Oct. 1, 1806, in Nelson, N. Y. Among some of his models are President Felton, Governor Wisner, Joseph Warren, S. P.

Chase, the Governors of 1860, the Pinney Child, and The Backwoodsman, The Young Naturalist, and The First Lesson.

His studio was at Cambridge, Mass.

Dexter, Henry

president of the American News company, was born March 14, 1813, in West Cambridge, Mass.

He originated the conception of the American News company, which he was finally able, with the aid of others in the same business, to realize, in 1864.

Dexter, Samuel

merchant, was born in 1726. He was a member of the governor's council before the revolution, and for several years between 1765 and 1775 served on the more important committees of both the house and the council. He died in 1810, in Mendon, Mass.

Dexter, Seymour

lawyer, legislator, banker, jurist, was born March 20, 1841, in Independence, N. Y. He served as a soldier in the civil war; has been a member of the New York state assembly; has been county judge, and judge of the circuit court. He is also a prominent banker of Elmira.

Dexter, Simon Newton

manufacturer, was born May 11, 1785, in Providence, R. I. He was president of the Whitestown bank in 1833-53; canal commissioner in 1840; and manager of the state lunatic asylum from 1849 till 1862.

He died Nov. 18, 1862, in Whitesboro, N. Y.

Dexter, Timothy

merchant, author, was born Jan. 22, 1743, in Malden, Mass. He has attained prominence as a successful merchant of Charlestown, Mass. He was the author of a work entitled A Pickle For the Knowing One. He died Oct. 22, 1806, in Newburyport, Mass.

Dexter, William Henry

merchant, was born Jan. 11, 1823, in Charlton, Mass. In 1873 he was made councilman in the Massachusetts government, and again in 1877. In 1874 he was elected a trustee of the Worcester academy and for many years was its treasurer.