Dewey, Chester – Dexter, Henry Martyn
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, George
naval officer, was born in Vermont. He attended the naval academy during 1854-58; and during 1858- 59 was attached to the steam frigate Wabash; and to the Mississippi in 1861-63. He was at the capture of New Orleans in 1862; of Port Hudson in 1863; and during 1864-65 was in the North Atlantic Blockading squadron. He was commissioned lieutenant in 1861; lieutenantcommander in 1865; commander in 1872; and captain in 1884. He was secretary of the light-house board during 1877-82; and chief of the bureau of equipment and recruiting, with rank of commodore, during 1889-90. He has attained world-wide fame by his destruction of the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay on May 1, 1898; was given a vote of thanks by congress; presented with a golden sword; and was promoted to rear admiral.
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.
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.
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.
Dewing, Thomas Wilmer
artist, was born May 4, 1852, in Boston, Mass.
His more important paintings are Young Sorcerer; Morning; Prelude; A Garden; The Days, which gained the Clarke prize; and Tobias and the Angel.
De Witt, Alexander
manufacturer, banker, congressman, was born April 2, 1797, in Worcester, Mass. He was a bank president; was a state senator in 1842, 1844, 1850, and 1851; a member of the constitutional convention of 1853; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1853 to 1857.
De Witt, Benjamin
physician, scientist, author, was born in 1774. He was a New York physician and scientist who published Oxygen; and Minerals in New York. He died in 1819, in New York city.
De Witt, Charles
congressman, was born in 1728. He was a delegate from New York to the continental congress from 1783 to 1785. He died Sept., 1787, in Kingston, N. Y.
De Witt, Charles G
congressman, He was a representative in congress from New York from 1829 to 1831; and was appointed charge d'affaires for Central America in 1833. He died April 13, 1839, in Newburg, N. Y.
De Witt, David Miller
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 25, 1837, in Paterson, N. J. He was elected district attorney of Ulster county in 1862, and reelected in 1865. He was elected to the forty-third congress as a democrat.
De Witt, Francis B
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 11, 1849, in Jackson county, Ind. He enlisted in the forty-sixth Ohio regiment at the age of twelve, and served at the battle of Shiloh and during the Corinth campaign.
He was elected on the republican ticket in 1891 to represent Paulding county in the Ohio legislature, and re-elected in 1893. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
De Witt, Jacob H
congressman, was born in 1784, in Ulster county, N. Y.
He was a representative in congress from that state from 1819 to 1821; and a member of the New York assembly in 1839 and in 1847. He died Jan. 30, 1857, in Kingston, N. Y.
De Witt, John
clergyman, educator, was born August, 1789, in Catskill, N. Y.
In 1825 he assumed the professorship of belles-lettres, criticism and logic in Rutgers college. He died Oct. 11, 1831, in New Brunswick, N. J.
De Witt, John
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 19, 1821, in Albany, N. Y.
He is a reformed Dutch clergyman, and professor in the Theological seminary at New Brunswick, N. J., in 1863-92. He is the author of The Sure Foundation and How to Build on It; The Psalms, a New Translation; and What is Inspiration?
De Witt, John
clergyman, author, was born in 1842, in Pennsylvania. He is a presbyterian clergyman, professor at Princeton Theological seminary since 1892, and the author of Sermons on the Christian Life.
De Witt, John
clergyman, was born Dec. 23, 1867, in Harrisburg, Pa. He is an eminent clergyman of Cincinnati, Ohio.
De Witt, Simeon
surveyor, author, was born Dec. 25, 1756, in Ulster county, N. Y. He was a famous surveyor who is commonly held responsible for the classical nomenclature of places in central and western New York. He published Elements of Perspective. He died Dec. 3, 1834, in Ithaca, N. Y.
De Witt, Susan Linn
author, poet, was born in 1778. She wrote Justinea, a novel; and The Pleasures of Religion, a poem. She died in 1824.
De Wolf, Austin
lawyer, author, was born April 29, 1838, in Deerfield, Mass. He is the author of The Town Meeting, a manual of Massachusetts law.
De Wolf, Edward P
merchant, was born Jan. 12, 1848, in Chicago, Ill.
He attended the public and high schools. of his native city, and for many years was there engaged in business. His father, William F. De Wolf, was once city treasurer and a prominent lawyer of Chicago. In 1882 he moved to Waukegan, and in time became prominent as a public citizen. In 1895 was elected mayor, and his administration has been eminently satisfactory. He is a director in the Lake County Agricultural society, and has held various other positions of honor.
De Wolfe, James
United States senator, was born in 1763, in Bristol, R. I.
He was a senator of the United States from Rhode Island from 1821 to 1825, when he resigned. He died Dec. 21, 1837, in New York city.
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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, Henry Martyn
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 13, 1821, in Plympton, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of prominence in Boston as editor of The Congregationalist in 1867-90. His most important work is The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years. He was the author of Handbook of Congregationalism; Pilgrim Memoranda; The Verdict of Reason; As to Roger Williams and His Banishment, a marked example of special pleading; History of the Old Plymouth Colony; History and the Study of History; The Right Use of Books; and The Study of Politics.
He died Nov. 13, 1890, in New Bedford, Mass.