The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-09-24
H1RRY g. DEWING.

Details concerning the death and
burial in Cincinnati of Harry g.
Dewing, formerly of this city, have
been received by his daughter. Miss
Bertha Dewing. The information
came in the form of q letter from Ed
win Fl. Ketcham, friend of Mr..
Dewing's in Cincinnati, to the dead
mans father, John A. Dewing, of
Orange, Mass which was by him for
warded to Miss Bertha. With the let
ter was copy of the Cincinnati Hos
pital record of the case. By this it
appears that Mr.. Dewing was admit
ted to the hospital on the morning of
September 6, suffering from chronic
bronchitis and asthma. His death
occurred on the morning of September
8. In the record E. H. Ketcham of
Norwood, Ohio, a suburb of Oincin-
natl, is mentioned as Mr.. Dewing's
next friend, and he was notified of
the DEATH The rest is told in Mr..
Ketcham's letters. He states that he
knew Mr.. Dewing was not well, al.
though he insisted that he was all
right, but that he did not know that
he was in the hospital until notified
of his death.
Acting under Mr.. Ketcham's direc-
tions the hospital superintendent tele-
graphed the dead mans father at Or
ange. This message was not deliv-
cred because none of the Dewings in
Orange understood it. Mr.. Ketcham
telegraphed on the night OF the 9th
but the message was not delivered,
the reason given being that John A.
Dewing was reported as unknown.
Mr.. DewiDg explains that the first
message mentioned Howard Dewing
instead of Harry and he did not I'M
derstand it, and that the second mes
sage did not reach him at all.
The hospital rules require that
the body must be removed within
forty eight hours, and no message be-
ing received from Orange, Mr.. Ketch-
am claimed the remains of his friend
and on September II the burial &C.
Cured, Mr.. Ketcham assuming the
expense of the funeral and grave.
When Mr.. Dewings father received
Mr.. Ketcham's letter he wrote him,
at once and received a reply giving
more details of the sad occurrence.
Mrs. and Miss Dewing do not know
whether or not the body wilt be
brought here for burial, but it is
thought that this may be brought
about because the dead man owned a
portion Of lot and a share in a
monument in the cemetery in this
city.
Mr.. Ketcham, whose Kindness
made it possible for Mr.. Dewing S
friends to know of his death, and
who saved the body from burial in a
potter's field, states in his letters that
he had known Harry Dewing for the
past six years in Cincinnati. He
wrote that he had known many of
Mr. Dewing's friends in Vermont and
New Hampshire as he had attended
Peacham and st. Johnsbury Academ-
les and Dartmouth College, and that
they had frequently talked over their
mutual acquaintances Mr.. Ketcham
says that he graduated from Dart
mouth in the class Of '73 and after
wards took a course in architecture at
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech.
nology. For time he practiced his
profession at his home in Indianapo
lis, but failing health caused him tC
give up the work, He is now {
craftsman in machine shop at Nor
wood He does not state what occu
patton Mr.. Dewing has pursued during
his life in Cincinnati, so it is no
known if he still followed newspaper
work,
HONORS HIS MOTHER.