Descendants of Dewey

Generation No. 1

1.  STEPHEN¹ DEWEY¹ was born  in of Sheffield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts¹, and died Unknown.  He married ELIZABETH OWEN¹.  She died Unknown.

Children of STEPHEN DEWEY and ELIZABETH OWEN are:

2.                i.    ELIZA² DEWEY, b. 05 Oct 1793; d. 12 Nov 1841, Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont.

                  ii.    PROFESSOR CHESTER DEWEY, D. D. LL. D.¹, d. Unknown.

Generation No. 2

2.  ELIZA² DEWEY (STEPHEN¹)¹ was born 05 Oct 1793¹, and died 12 Nov 1841 in Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont¹.  She married GEORGE WYLLYS BENEDICT, LL. D.² 05 Jun 1823³, son of JOEL BENEDICT and CURRANCE WHEELER.  He was born 11 Jan 1796 in North Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut⁴, and died Unknown.

Notes for GEORGE WYLLYS BENEDICT, LL. D.:

"Henry Marvin Benedict, The Genealogy of the Benedicts in America,  (Joel Munsell, 82 State Street, Albany, NY, 1870), pages 212-213."

"While fitting for college, at Franklin, Delaware county, in 1814, he was drafted into the army during the absence of his father, and ordered to march the next day for the defense of New York, then threatened with an attack by the British fleet. He remained in the service about two months, when his father procured a substitute for him, and he returned to his studies. He was examined and passed for admission to Hamilton College, but, the family removing to Chatham, he entered, Sept., 1815, the sophomore class of Williams College, and graduated in 1818, with the highest honors. After graduating he was, successively, principal of the academy in Westfield, Mass., tutor three years in Williams College, principal of the academy in Newburgh, professor in the University of Vermont, where he filled the chairs of mathematics, natural philosophy, chemistry and natural history, teaching chemistry in the university and in the medical college. He was secretary of the board of trustees for many years, and at separate periods was treasurer. In 1847 he closed his connection with the institution in consequence of ill health. During his professorship, while Prof. Farrand N. Benedict was engaged in the surveys and observations of the mountains of Northern New York, Prof. G. W. B. made observations at Burlington to synchronize with those at the superior stations, and their merit was acknowledged in Prof. Emmons's Geology of New York. In the language of one of his associate professors, who was in constant intimacy with him for many years: 'The University of Vermont, apparently expiring from the effects of the War of 1812, and from subsequent calamities, he inspired with new life. It is not invidious to his associates, who labored with him through this trying period of the institution, to say that he was preeminently efficient in originating and executing the measures that ultimately resulted in its renewed prosperity. Some of them have since been adopted by most of the American colleges. The course of study was remodeled, systematized, and enlarged, the standard of scholarship elevated, and a more vigorous discipline enforced. His paternal and genial intercourse with the students, gained for him a popularity among them that was rarely interrupted. He brought to bear upon the multiplied subjects of thought and labor to which the necessities of the institution called him, a clear and active mind, versatile powers and general erudition.' He was afterwards for many years connected with the public press, as proprietor and editor of the Burlington Free Press, a daily and weekly newspaper. He was twice elected to the senate of Vermont, after which he declined all candidacy for political office, although he has never ceased to feel a deep and patriotic interest in public affairs. He received the degree of LL. D. from the University of Vermont. A discourse delivered by him before the literary societies of the University of Vermont, on New England educational Institutions in relation to American Government, was published in 1844. He has resided at Burlington since 1825."

Children of ELIZA DEWEY and GEORGE BENEDICT are:

                   i.    CHARLES LINNAEUS³ BENEDICT, LL. D., b. 02 Mar 1824, Newburg, Wyoming County, New York; d. Unknown.

                  ii.    GEORGE GRENVILLE BENEDICT, A. M., b. 10 Dec 1826, Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont; d. Unknown.

                 iii.    ROBERT DEWEY BENEDICT, A. M., b. 03 Oct 1828; d. Unknown.

                 iv.    EDWARD THURLOW BENEDICT, b. 23 Oct 1831; d. 17 Jan 1834.

                  v.    BENJAMIN LINCOLN BENEDICT, A. M., b. 31 Jan 1835; d. Unknown.

                 vi.    WYLLYS WHEELER BENEDICT, b. 08 Oct 1837; d. 06 Jun 1954.

Endnotes

1.  Henry Marvin Benedict, The Genealogy of the Benedicts in America,  (Joel Munsell, 82 State Street, Albany, NY, 1870), page 211.

2.  Henry Marvin Benedict, The Genealogy of the Benedicts in America,  (Joel Munsell, 82 State Street, Albany, NY, 1870), pages 141 and 211.

3.  Henry Marvin Benedict, The Genealogy of the Benedicts in America,  (Joel Munsell, 82 State Street, Albany, NY, 1870), page 211.

4.  Henry Marvin Benedict, The Genealogy of the Benedicts in America,  (Joel Munsell, 82 State Street, Albany, NY, 1870), pages 141 and 211.

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