DEWEY
DEWEY
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
