Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Dewey, C. A. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 October 27, 2008, 4:27 am Author: Western Historical Society ((1879)) C A. DEWEY, hardware merchant, is a native of Newton, Chittendon Co., Vt; he came with his father to Paris, Kenosha Co., then Racine Co., and located on Section 13. His father, John M. Dewey, died in Somers Township, in January, 1877. Mr. Dewey came to Kenosha in 1848, and was for ten years engaged in farming, then began his present business; he was Clerk of School District in Paris for many years, Director and Treasurer at the same time; was Alderman of the First Ward in Kenosha for six months, when he resigned. He married Delina P. Hale, June 27, 1860; she is a native of Ohio; they have one child-C. Ernest. Additional Comments: Extracted from: THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN, CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT, RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC., ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN, MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC. ILLUSTRATED. CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY. MDCCCLXXIX. ((1879)) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/kenosha/bios/dewey486nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wifiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb