Lucina Artemisia Dewey

Lucina Artemisia Dewey (Rich)

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MOTHER OF EDUCATOR JOHN DEWEY

OBITUARY

MRS. LUCINDA A. DEWEY, Chicago, died March 13, aged 68 years. She was a lineal descendent of Thomas Dewey, from whose son Admiral Dewey is descended. She lived at the residence of her son, John Dewey, 5238 Woodlawn avenue. Mrs. Dewey's home was in Burlington, Vt. Her husband, Archibald S. Dewey, was a Burlington merchant and a Captain of Vermont Cavalry in the Civil War. Thomas Dewey is supposed to have been an ealy French Huguenot settler in Vermont. Mrs. Dewey left three sons, John, Charles M. of Portland, Ore. and Davis R. Dewey of Boston.

"Built in 1850 by Lemuel W. Page, a partner in the dry goods mercantile firm of Page & Best, this Greek Revival style house occupies land that Henry Leavenworth subdivided from the Grasse Mount property between 1845 and 1853. On March 16, 1859, Page sold it for $2,600 to Judge Davis Rich of Shoreham, who gave the house to his daughter, Lucina Dewey, wife of Archibald S. Dewey, a local merchant. In May of the same year John Dewey, the famous philosopher, was born here. Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Archibald S. Dewey, then fifty years old, joined the army in September 1861, and the family moved out " --Eric L. Martin