The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-15
THE DEWEY HOME.
The Old House Located In
Montpelier, Vermont.
Of Colonial Style, Unpreten-
tiOus, But Comfortable.
FEW CHANGES MADE.
DIR. Dewey, the Head of the
Family, In Life Insurance.
Two of His Sons Follow His
FEW CHANGES MADE.
Two of His Sons Follow His
Footsteps = Family History.
TF,rom the Mail and Express.1

( who, coming to the town some while ago,
adopted the patronymic as an advaatag-
eous one to carry. Old DR.. Dewey, the
head of the family was one of the pio-
neers in life insurance, and he founded
a company which has handsome head
quarters in the town; which does, it is
said, the largest business of any company
in Vermont, and in which the presidents
/ of some of the big New York companies
i are reported to have insured themselves
out of compliment to its stability. DR..
DeWey's son Charles, is its president, and
the next son, Edward is director. It was
not so many years ago that the villag-
ers used to say that George would have
done better if he had followed his broth
ers' footsteps. What is called the largest
fire insurance company in the state IS
also located in Montpelier, and William
; T. Dewey, son of Charles Dewey, is its
/ treasurer.
DR.. Dewey removed from the old farm
at Berlin before his youngest son was
born. Berlin is a small settlement about
four miles above Montpelier Here sun
! reside several members OF 7IIe Ell -
family into which the elder Dewey mar
ried Here IS the unpretenuous farm
house that sheltered the previous genera
/ tons Of Deweys, and here the little grave
yard where their bones repose; mere mere
are three residences IN MontpeHer lilsle
are pointed out to strangers one OF
these is the handsome brick cottage of
Edward Dewey, standing opposite the
capitol on State street, and on the very
residence of Charles Dewey, farther down
and most Interesting is the old Dewey
house itself, removed from its proper site
and occupied by the family OF ANOTHER.
This house stands back a short distance
from the sidewalk and is the last one on
colonial style, and unpretentious enough
now, but comfortable, and, in its day,
wing to the right, on the ground floor.
George Dewey was born 1t is still A bed
the house one evening by its present ms
tress, her little child was sleeping there,
r.1zJf fnTa- 70 70
apartment The interior of the dwelling
is much as it was a generation ago What
kitchen, while Q bathroom and shed oc-
cupy the place where ,,,i a growing boys
house are quite low, and heavy girders
/ rooms is the long sitting room, which
George deigned to occupy during inele-
ment weather
one is Impressed with the air of cOur-
tesy and good breeding Of the members OF
instinctively the refinement and reserve
as its dominant quality of moral ard men
tal force 1t is said of the Deweys that
they can differ with you. with more cour-
mon even to the granite fbers of New
England families. They can be mighty
was the tribute of one of the oldest in
habitants. I should say of each of the
vigor of moral fibre they would know as
good horse when they saw him, and that
Sundays should try to pass them on the
road he would have to whip his rag into
There is a marked resemblance between
the members of this family From the
brOws up Charles Dewey repeats the ad-
mirals head very faithfully. He has the
brows, but is a taller man than George,
or indeed than the average of the Dewey
race, which inclines in stature to mix
ture OF stocklness ana aglllty. AIthough
he has celebrated his golden wedding he
is the active as well as actual head Of a
great corporation, ana his mind IS as alert
as that of a man of forty Edward Dewey
of of cultivated tastes. The shape
brothers, but the eyes are very like
Mary Perrin Greeley, the companion of
pelierT the QUIET life Of a refined gentle
woman. She and the admiral are nearly
ways bound them. The letter which he
sent her after the battle reveals more of
both than pages of narration. He wrote:
Just a line TO thank you for your kind
letter of April 6. and also for your pray
ers for my safety. Perhaps they lid help:
and perhaps in Character, the widowed
sister more nearly resembles the admiral
than does either of his brothers. The Wis
itor feels himself in the presence Of
ttTnne bnf .rentIeand thorouehIv vyom9nlT
ciples and shrfnlIing insticti7eiy from the
Idle scrutiny Of curiosity
DR.. julius Yemans Dewey had strong
of a cultured and forceful man. A quick
tongue and a certain philosophic humOr
three times. but all his children We're by
his frt wife. Mary Perrin, and all of
George was only 5. and there is no picture
of her in existence, She brought to the
Dewey family an inheritance Of dfstin-
Connecticut families of the Talcotts
HolyOkes, HOLSTERS and MOseleys. Mary
Dewey is remembered by her elder child
rem as gentle. Selt-Sacrlhcing and de-
voted mother. Her fine and rare qualities
tempered the aggressive and resolute
strain of the Dewey blood and to her, as
much to her husband, must be attri-
buted that combination OF courage with
chivalry and firmness with the modesty
that made Dewey not only victor in Man
liza Bay but arbiter of peace and und1s-
puted empire for year Of vexauon and
harassments in the Philippine arehipel-
Admiral Dewey comes honestly by his
fighting qualities Whatever else the men
who bore his name have been, they nave
been men of faction, and uncommonly
handy with the sword. They have been
DeWeys in every war since Thomas Dew
ey called the Settler built his cottage
in Dorchester in 1888 OF the adTniraPs
brothers. one of them sent his TWO sons
to the war with Spain, and the son of the
other volunteered out got no opportunity
to serve. because VermontS quota was al
the way, comma nded by a cousin of
the family. In the civil war the admir-
ais next elder brother. Edward, enlisted
and came back a captain, ana ms eldest
brother. Charles, was only prevented
from going out by the circumstance of his
father was the examining surgeon, and
frankly told him that two sons out Of
three were enough and he would refuse to
pass him. The regiments that went out
from Vermont suffered more severely
than from any other state, and among
them marched two dozen DeWeyS. In
single Aassa chusetts regiment were six
DeWeyS, commanded by q relative OF Al
miral Deweys mother From as far west
as Illinois came seventy union soldiers
In the war of 1872 fought thirteen Dew
furnished twentv-four soldiers to the rev
a n r TrV in