Dewey, John K.

John K. Dewey died April 12, 1887, at the residence of his son, Charles E. Dewey, at Four Towns. Deceased was born in Royalton, Windsor county, Vermont, Feb. 28, 1795. He moved to New York state with the man to whom he was apprenticed at the carpenter and joiner trade, and on Nov. 23, 1819, was married to Harriet Hunt, whose death occurred Aug. 20, 1863. He moved to Michigan in 1831, and settled in Waterford township, where he has since resided. He was made a Free and Accepted Mason in New York in 1818,
and was an honorary member of Birmingham Lodge at the time of his death, and of which lodge he was also a charter member.