The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-19
Dewey YIELDS
TO SILENT FOE.
Hero Of Manila Bay Joins
COuntry's Fathers.
END CAME TUESDAY NIGHT

Almost to Last Grim Sea Captain Stuck
to His Post-Gravity of Case for
Time Withheld from Him--Ad.
vanced Age Proved Handicap-Wife
at Bedside.
WASHINGTON - Admiral Dew
ey, the hero of Manila Fay, and presi-
dent of the general board of the navy,
died at his home here at 5:56 p. m.
Tuesday, after a weeks illness, at the
age of SEVERITY -nine. Mrs. Mildred Nc
Lean DCwe.,, his wife, who was con-
stantiy wit lin throughout mis- brief
illness, We ut his bedside when he
died.
Drs. I o'9on and A. M. Fauntle-
roy, who ..-d ed Admiral Dewey, al
SO were va hin, and Lieutenant L.
E. Breton, the admiraPs aide. was on
duty when the end came.
Stricken Last Thursday,
The admiral was stricken last Thurs
day as he was leaving home for the
navy department, where as president
of the general board he had been at
his desk almost daily during the last
sixteen of his sixty-two years of serv-
ice in the navy He collapsed and had
to be carried to his bed. When physl-
clans were called they were alarm
ed, but knowing the admiraHs great
recuperative powers and his keen
aversion to any suggestion of his fail
ing, they determined to make no i'm
mediate announcement regarding his
illness. Inquirers were told that the
admiral had cold.
Severely I'll Year Ago.
But the great strength of the aged
officer had been Slapped and there was
no recupera ton. Monday morning his
condition had become so serious that
it was decided to state the facts to
the public Later it became known that
Admiral Dewey had a severe illness
more than a year ago, about which
only his physicians an intimates knew,
and that he never had been the same
physically since.
Was Third Admiral.
Admiral Dewey was the third officer
who won the high post of admiral Of
the United States navy.
His father was Dr. Julius Yemans
Dewey of Montpelier, VT. His mother
was Mary Perrin, daughter of Zecha-
riah Perrin of Gilead, Conn
George Dewey was born at Mont
pelier on Dec. Is, 1887. He was eighth
=, docoop+ ,froro Tbop,oC Dop-oy Of
Sandwich, Kent, England, who emf
grated to Massachusetts, about 1888
Thomas Dewey married Mrs Frances
Clark in 1889. Josiah, the second of
their children, was the ancestor of
the admiral Josiah in 1862 married
Hepzibah, daughter of Richard Lyman
of Northampton, Mass, whose lineage
some genealogists say, has been
traced back through the Lambert fam
lily to Alfred the Great
President Pays Tribute.
WASHINGTON - President Will
son and all of Washington have
joined in lamenting the death of Ad-
miral George Dewey. Expressions of
deep grief came from every channel
of governmental activity. Soon after
the Admiral's death, the White House
issued the. following statement:
I'm expressing his grief at the death
of Admiral George Dewey, the Presi-
dent said the whole nation will mourn
the loss of it's most distinguished ma
val hero, a man who has been as faith
full, as intelligent and as successful in
performance of his responsibilities in
time of peace as he was gallant and
successful in time of war It is such
men that give the service distinction
and the nation a just pride in those
who serve it."