CHESTER DEWEY. 1 



Professor Chester Dewey died at Kochester, New 

 York, December 13, having completed the eighty-third year 

 of his age. " He was born at Sheffield, Massachusetts, Oc- 

 tober 25, 1784 ; was graduated at Williams College in 1806 ; 

 studied for the ministry ; was licensed to preach in 1808, 

 and during the latter half of that year officiated in Tyring- 

 ham in western Massachusetts. The same year he accepted 

 a tutorship in Williams College, and in 1810 was appointed 

 professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, an office 

 which he discharged for seventeen years. During his con- 

 nection with the college he did much to advance the standard 

 of scholarship and enlarge the course of study in his own and 

 kindred departments. Between 1827 and 1836 he was prin- 

 cipal of the ' Gymnasium,' a high school for boys at Pitts- 

 field, Massachusetts. In the latter year he removed to this 

 city (Rochester), and became principal of the Rochester 

 Collegiate Institute, which post he held until 1850, when he 

 was elected professor of chemistry and natural philosophy in 

 the Rochester University. He was actively engaged in the 

 duties of that position till 1860, when he retired at the age of 

 seventy-seven, though he continued to teach to some extent 

 till his eightieth year. The last four years he has passed in 

 easy and dignified retirement, happy in the society of his fam- 

 ily and friends, beloved and respected by all, and occupying 

 himself still with his scientific studies and with meteorological 

 observations, which he conducted with great care and regu- 

 larity." 



Dr. Dewey was an early and a frequent contributor to this 

 Journal, upon several subjects, but especially upon that with 

 which his name is inseparably connected, the Carices of 

 North America. His " Cartography," commenced in 1824, 



1 American Journal of Sci3nce and Arts, 2 ser., xlv. 122. (1868.) 



