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David Rich Dewey I
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149047630/david-rich-dewey
Age: 84 yrs.
He was the son of Archibald Sprague Dewey & Lucina Artemisia (Rich) Dewey, and the husband of Mary Cornellia (Hopkins) Dewey (16 December 1860-1951); m 29 June 1886 in Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin, United States
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Colonel Bradley Dewey (23 August 1887-14 October 1974)
Dorothy (Dewey) Comstock (25 January 1889-1963)
Death Notice, The Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, MA), 14 December 1942:
Dr. D. R. Dewey, Economist, Dies
Boston, - Dr. Davis Rich Dewey, noted economist and for 45 years a member of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and head of the department of ecomonics and statistics, since 1930, died yesterday at his home, 985 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, in his 85th year. Funeral services will be held at noon tomorrow at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.
Service Notice, Fitchburg (MA) Sentinel, 14 December 1942:
Dewey Funeral Services To Be Held Tomorrow
Cambridge, Dec. 14 (AP) - Funeral services will be held tomorrow noon in Mount Auburn Cemetery for Dr. Davis Rich Dewey, 84, nationally knowm economist and professor emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology who died yesterday.
Dr. Dewey, a brother of Dr. John Dewey, widely known educator, was an authority on questions of industry and finance. President Calvin Coolidge twice appointed him, 1928, to membership on boards which studied wage problems of western railroads.
A native of Burlington, Vermont, he was a member of the M.I.T. faculty for 45 years until his retirement in 1933. He was a graduate of the University of Vermont and also held a degree of doctor of philosophy from Johns Hopkins University.
Death Notice, The Evening Independent (Massillon, OH), 14 December 1942:
... The author of several books, [Dr. Dewey] also was managing editor of the American Economic Review for 30 years from its establishment in 1911.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Rich_Dewey
Davis Rich Dewey (April 7, 1858 – December 13, 1942) was an American economist and statistician.
He was born at Burlington, Vermont. Like his younger brother, John Dewey, he was educated at the University of Vermont and Johns Hopkins University. He later became professor of economics and statistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was chairman of the Massachusetts state board on the question of the unemployed (1895), member of the Massachusetts commission on public, charitable, and reformatory interests (1897), special expert agent on wages for the 12th census, and member of a state commission (1904) on industrial relations.
Dewey became managing editor of the American Economic Review in 1911. He wrote:
Syllabus on Political History since 1815 (1887)
Financial History of the U.S. (1902; fourth edition, 1912)
Employees and Wages: Special Report on the Twelfth Census (1903)
National Problems (1907)
The primary library for the MIT Sloan School of Management, MIT Department of Economics, and MIT Department of Political Science is named after Dewey.
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Davis Rich Dewey's Timeline
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April 7, 1858
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Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont, United States
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August 23, 1887
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Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont, United States
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December 13, 1942
Age 84
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Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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Mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 02138, United States
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