The Dewees family; geneaolgical data, biographical facts and historical information . d and Pennsylvania. Some of them have beenmembers of the Maryland Legislature, judges of theCourts of the State, and physicians of note in Baltimoreand Washington, D. C. William Dallas Deweese, one of the descendants ofWilliam Deweese, eldest son of Lewis, lives in CanonCity, Colorado. He is a horticulturist. For severalyears he has been in the habit of taking trips to Alaskafor the purpose of hunting and collecting specimens forthe National Museum at Washington, D. C, some ofwhich are very fine. The followin
The Dewees family; geneaolgical data, biographical facts and historical information . d and Pennsylvania. Some of them have beenmembers of the Maryland Legislature, judges of theCourts of the State, and physicians of note in Baltimoreand Washington, D. C. William Dallas Deweese, one of the descendants ofWilliam Deweese, eldest son of Lewis, lives in CanonCity, Colorado. He is a horticulturist. For severalyears he has been in the habit of taking trips to Alaskafor the purpose of hunting and collecting specimens forthe National Museum at Washington, D. C, some ofwhich are very fine. The following sketch of the life of Cornelius De-weese is taken from the Louisville Courier of April i,1896: Word was received here yesterday of the death ofMr. Cornelius Deweese, who is well remembered as acitizen by the oldest inhabitants of Louisville. died yesterday morning at his home in Hunt-ers Bottom, Kentucky, which is just across the Ohioriver from Madison, Indiana. The remains will bebrought here to-day on the steamer Big Kanawha, ar-The body will be buried in Cave The Dewees Family. 213 Mr. Devveese was born at Harrodsburg in October,1809, and was eighty-six j^ears old at the time of hisdeath. He came to Louisville in 1828, and began workas a clerk for Mr. Parmelee, on Wall street, which isnow Fourth, between Main street and the river. was in the steamboat business. Mr. Deweeseremained at this place for three years, and then boughtan interest in the old Wall street hotel which he con-ducted for several years. Afterward Mr. Deweese en-gaged in business as a flour merchant, handling thecombined product of half a dozen Kentucky mills. In1847 ^^ retired from business, and bought one of thefinest farms in Hunters Bottom, a tract of land of 900acres. He built a handsome country residence on theplace, and took up his residence there, having lived onthe farm ever since. He was a very successful farmer,and accumulated a large amount of mone^^, investing ago
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