. Portrait and biographical record of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, containing biographical sketches of old settlers and representative citizens of the county . ->^(ii<. R. DKWKV has been a con-spicuous cliaracter in Wis-consin for more than iialf acentury, and unless IMosesM. Strong be excepted, ispersonally familiar with moremen, events, facts, and politicalsecrets than any man now these matters, however,he was never very talkative, hav-ing been a believer in an early ad-monition by .Tames Buchanan : Saylittle and write nothing for thepublic eye. Mr. Dewej^ is theson of Kben
. Portrait and biographical record of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, containing biographical sketches of old settlers and representative citizens of the county . ->^(ii<. R. DKWKV has been a con-spicuous cliaracter in Wis-consin for more than iialf acentury, and unless IMosesM. Strong be excepted, ispersonally familiar with moremen, events, facts, and politicalsecrets than any man now these matters, however,he was never very talkative, hav-ing been a believer in an early ad-monition by .Tames Buchanan : Saylittle and write nothing for thepublic eye. Mr. Dewej^ is theson of Kbenezer and (Web-ster) Dewc^-, and was born in of ]-ebanon. State of Connecticut, on Decem-ber 19, 1813. The following year his parents re-moved to Otsego County, in the State of NewYork, where his youthful days were spent in thetown of Butternuts, now Morris. The early education of Mr. Dewej- was com-menced in the district school of that place. Atthe age of sixteen he sent to Hamilton Acad-emy, then under charge of Prof. Zenos Moore, inthe town of Hamilton, Chenango Co., N. Y., wherehe rein:iined three years. Among his classmateswere William Pitt Lj-
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