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DEWEY, Nelson, governor of Wisconsin, was bttrn ill U'kiiion. Conn.. Dec. 19. 1813; son of Ebenezer aiul Lucy (Webster) Dewey, ami grand- son of Beziileel and Syliel (Metcalf) Dewey. In 1814 tlu' family removed to Ot.sego county, N.Y''., and in isji* lie was sent to the academy at Ham- ilton. X.Y.. where he remained three yeiirs. He taught sclux>l for a year in Morris, N.Y., removed, to Limca.ster. (irant county. Wis., in 1836, and was admitted to the Ixir in 1838. He helped to org-anize the county, of which he was elected first register of deeds in 1837. He was a representa- tive in the 1st. 2d and 3d territorial legislative as.semblies, 18;3H— 12, and a member of the council in the 4th legislative assembly, 1842-46. He served as spe;\ker at the extra session of the second assembly in August. 1840. and as presi- dent of the council at the fourth session of the fourth assembly in Januarj-, 1846. He was elected governor of Wisconsin on its organization as a state. Jime 7. 1848. and was re-elected in 1850, serving until Jan. 5, 1852. He was a dele- gate to the several Democratic state conventions, and a Demcx-ratic elector in 1888. In 1849, upon the reorganization of the Wisconsin historical so- ciety, he was elected its president. He was a pioneer in developing the lead industries of the state. He died in Ca.s.'^ville, Wis., July 21, 1889.

DEWEY, Orville, clergj-man, was born in SliHttield. Ma.^s., March 28, 1794; son of Silas and Polly (Root) Dewey, grandson of Stephen, great- grand.son of James, great ^ grandson of Jedediah, and great^ grandson of Thomas Dewey, the origi- nal immigrant. He was graduated from Williams college in 1814,taught school in Sheffield for a year, spent a year in business, and in 1816 entered Andover the- ological seminar}' where he was grad- viated in 1819. He was tmdecidpd as to his theological views and refused to be a candidate for any settlement, accepting an invitation from the American education .s<x;iety to preach in the churches of Mas- sachusetts in Ijehalf of its objects. In the spring of 1820 he engaged to preach for a year at the Congregational church at Glouce.ster. There he was married, Dec. 26. 1820. to Loui.sa, daugh- ter of William Famham of Boston. At the end of the year he announced his deci.sion to en- ter the Unitarian denomination and l)ecame as- sistant to Dr. William Elleiy Channing at the

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Federal .street church in Boston, filling the pulpit during Dr. Channing's visit to Euro[)e in 1822-23. He was ordained pastor of the New Bedford Uni- tarian Congregational church. Dec. 17. 1823. and besides ably discharging the duties of his parish he became a constant contributor to the Christian Examiner. His health gradually gave way under the strain of overwork and in 1833 he was obliged to leave his parish for a year's visit to Europe. In 1835 he was installed as pastor of the second Congregational clmrch in New York, situated on Mercer street. The building was burned in November, 1837, and a new one called the Church of the Messiah was erected in 1839 on Broadway, In 1841 he again went abi-oad for his health, re- turning in August. 1843. but was no longer able to carrj' on his work and in 1849 finally dissolved his connection with the Church of the Messiah, retiring to his old home in Sheffield. Mass. In 1851 he delivered before the Lowell institute in Boston a series of lectures on the " Problem of Human Destiny." which he afterward delivered in many of the large cities of the east and south. The following j-ear he delivered a second course of lectures at the Lowell institute, on the " Edu- cation of the Human Race." In 1851 he became pastor of a church in Washington, D. C., and at the same time was apiwinted by President Fill- more, one of his parishioners there, chaplain in the U.S. navy. He remained in Washington two years. In 1856-57 he preached and lectured in Charleston, S.C. In 1858 he became pastor of Church Green in Boston, and in 1861 retired to Sheffield, where he passed the rest of his life. Harvard conferred upon him the lionorary degree of D.D. in 1839. He published his complete works in three volumes (1847) and many sermons and addresses. See Autolnoyraphy and Letters of On-iUe Deirpy by Mary E. Dewey (1883.) He died in Sheffield. Mass., Maroli 21. 1882.

DEWEY, Samuel Worthington, mariner, was born in FahiKnith, Ma.ss. , Feb. 4, 1807; son of Capt. Samuel Madoii and Mercy Bacon (Hallett) Dewey; and grandson of Benoni and Sabra (Worthington) Dewey. His father was cajitain in the U.S. artillery during the war of 1812. Samuel removed with his pai-ents to Boston in 1810, attended the public school, went to sea with Captain Ashman, making the voyage to the East Indies in 1820, was mate of tiie ship Topaz, com- manded the ships Jlcsseiifjer and JsrafI, and visited the principal ports of Europe, South America and the East Indies. He retired from the merchant service in 1834. He was an ardent Whig and in 1834 cut from the Constitution, lying in Charles- town harbor, the figurehead of Jackson and sub.seciuently returned it to Mahlon Dickinson, secretary of tiie navy, at Washington, D.C. He was a ship-broker in New Y'ork, engaged in trade