Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Dewey, Sylvester Harvey August 14, 1821 - 
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Author: History of Grundy County 1914

Dewey, Sylvester Harvey, who came to Grundy County in 1855, was born at 
Leyden, N. Y., August 14, 1821.  Upon his arrival in this county, he bought 
eighty acres of land on the present site of Verona for $450, but sold this 
property four years later to move to Mazon Township where he bought 220 acres, 
adding to his holdings until he owned 540 acres.  In 1873 he went to Morris, 
but returned to Mazon several years later to embark in an agricultural 
implement and grain business.  On December 30, 1847, Mr. Dewey married Melissa 
Porter and they had the following children:  Ellen Melissa, who married Horace 
G. Overrocker; Alice Eliza, who married Daniel Webster Francis; Milton 
Sylvester, who married Margaret Dewey; Mary Jerusha; Lester Scott, who married 
Asenath Eudora; Flora Angelina and two who died young.  Mr. Dewey was an 
Abolitionist prior to the Civil War, later becoming a Prohibitionist and still 
later a Silver Democrat.  In early life he joined the Baptist Church, and his 
wife was of the same religious creed, but when the family located at Mazon, 
they affiliated with the Methodist Church, there being no church of their 
denomination in the village.

Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914, p804

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