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Zoology, and An Examination of Some Jieasonings Against the Unity of Mankind. See Sketch of the Life of Prof. Chester Dewey, D.D., LL.D., by Mar- tin B. Anderson, published in the annual report of the regents of the Smithsonian institution, 1870. He died in Rochester, N.Y., Dec. 5, 1867.

DEWEY, Chester Pomeroy, journalist, was born in Pittsfield, Mass., Jan. 10, 1826; son of Chester and Olivia (Pomeroy) Dewey. He was graduated at Williams in 1846 and taught school in Virginia and in Eochester, N.Y. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1850, but did not practise law, entering into journalism as assistant editor of the Rochester American. He left that journal in 1858 to join the editorial staff of the Commercial Advertiser, New York citj% where he remained until 1874, when he joined the staff of the Brook- lyn Argus. Thence in 1877 he went to the Brook- lyn Union, and in 1883 he became an associate editor of the American Agriculturist, New York. In 1890 he was attached to the Commercial Bulle- tin. He died in Rochester, N.Y. . Aug. 5, 1899.

DEWEY, Daniel, representative, was born in Sheffield, Conn., Jan. 29, 1766; son of Capt. Daniel and Abigail (Saxton) Dewey ; grandson of James, great-grandson of Jedediah, and great^ grandson of Tliomas Dewey, the settler. He stud- ied two years at Yale and settled in Williamstown, Mass., in the practice of law in 1787. He was treasurer of Williams college, 1798-1814, professor of law and civil polity, 1812-15, and a trustee, 1803-15. In public life he was a member of the state executive council, 1809-12, a representative in the 13th congress, 1813-15, and a judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts, 1814^15. He was married to a daughter of Judge Daniel Noble. He died in Williamstown, Mass. , May 26, 1815.

DEWEY, Davis Rich, educator, was born in Burlington, Vt., April 7, 1858; son of Archibald Sprague and Lucinda Artemesia (Rich) Dewey; grandson of Davis and Affia (Wright) Rich, and a descendant of Thomas Dewey, the settler. He ac- quired his preparatory education in the public schools and was graduated from the University of Vermont in 1879. He then taught school, 1879-83, being principal of the high school in Hyde Park, Chicago, 111., 1881-83. He took a post- graduate course in history and political economy at Johns Hopkins university, where for one year he held a fellowship, and was graduated with the degree of Ph.D. in 1886. He was appointed to the chair of economics and statistics at the Massachusetts institute of technology, Boston, in 1886, and was elected secretary of the American statistical association in the same year. He became editor of the quarterly publications of the association, which had been suspended for many years, and was energetic in increasing its membership. He was elected a member of the American economic

association, to whose publications ha made con- tributions. He is the author of a Syllabus of Political History of the Nineteenth Centm-y (1887), afterward revised and enlarged in co-operation with Prof. Charles H. Levermore. In 1894-95 he served as chairman of the Massachusetts commit- tee on the unemployed which submitted a report in print. In 1896-97 he served as a member of a special commission to report on the charitable and reformatory interests and institutions of Massa- chusetts.

DEWEY, Francis Henshaw, jurist, was born in Williamstown, Mass., July 12, 1821; son of Judge Charles Augustus and Frances A. (Hen- shaw) Dewey. He was graduated at Williams college in 1840, studied law at Yale and Harvard, and with the Hon. Emery Washburn at Worces- ter, and was admitted to the bar in 1843. He practised in Worcester until 1869 when he was appointed a judge of the superior court of the state. He was a state senator in 1856 and again in 1869, was for several years president of the Worces- ter county horticultural society, was a trustee of Williams college, 1869-87, and a member of the American antiquarian society. Williams gave him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1873. He was married in 1846 to Frances A., daughter of John Clark of Northampton, Mass. She died in 1851 and in 1853 he was married to Sarah B., daughter of the Hon. George A. Tufts of Dudley, Mass. He died in Worcester, Mass., Dec. 16, 1887.

DEWEY, Frederic Perlcins, chemist, was born in Hartford, Conn., Oct. 4, 1855 ; son of Daniel S. and Elizabeth (Perkins) Dewey; grandson of Daniel and Fannie (Shepard) Dewey, and of Isaac and Betsy (Belden) Perkins; and a descend- ant of Deacon Benjamin Chaplin, a first settler, in whose honor Chaplin, Conn., was. named. He was graduated at the Sheffield scientific school, Yale college, in 1876, and was assistant in ana- lytical chemistry at Lafayette college, 1876-77. In July, 1877, he became chemist of the North Jersey iron company and in 1878 took a post- gi'aduate course in the laboratory of the Sheffield scientific school. In 1879 he was engaged as chemist of the Roane iron and steel company and in 1881 was employed by the census bureau, in association with Dr. George W. Hawes, in inves- tigating the building stones of the United States. In December, 1882. he was appointed curator of metallurgy in the U.S. national museum, Wash- ington, D.C. From 1889 he was engaged in expert work in chemistry and metallurgy in Washington, D.C. He was married April 12, 1877, to Charlotte Esther Candee of West Haven, Conn. His published works include : A Prelim- inary Descriptive Catalogue of the Systematic Col- lections in Economic Geology and Metallurgy in the United States National Museum (1891),