Dewey, Orville
clergyman, author, was born March 28, 1794, in Sheffield, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of conservative opinions, once prominent as a pastor in New York and Boston. He was the author of Unitarian Belief; Discourses on Human Life; The Old World and the New; Letters on Revivals; Problems of Human Life and Destiny; and Education of the Human Race. He died March 21, 1882, in Sheffield, Mass.
DEWING, MRS. MARIA RICHARDS, artist, was born Oct. 27, 1855, in New York. She has painted numerous figure and flower pieces, among which are Violets; and Mother and Child; and a number of portraits, including Portrait of a Boy; Portrait of Her Father; and Sleeping Child.