| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Fifteenth Generation235. Edward DEWEY was born on 27 March 1829 in Montpelier, Washington County, VT.175 Biographical Sketch Although Dewey prepared for college, he chose to enter a mercantile life until 1860 when he became assistant secretary of the Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Dewey held this position for four years when he was summoned into the United States service as quartermaster of the 8th Vermont Volunteers. In January of 1864 Lieutenant Edward Dewey joined the regiment in Louisiana, and in July 1864 accompanied it to Virginia, where the regiment participated in the battles of Opequon and Cedar Creek. On February 11, 1865, Dewey was promoted to captain and assistant quartermaster in the staff department of United States volunteers. However, he resigned three months later and returned home to his wife and children in Montpelier. Upon his return he was elected assistant secretary of the National Life Insurance Company of which his father had become president in 1851. In June 1877 he was elected vice-president of the company and stayed in that position until January 1897. On August 27, 1856, Edward Dewey married Susan Griggs Lilley (1834-1909), daughter of his father’s third wife. They had six children. Edward was the older brother of Admiral George Dewey (1837-1872), hero of the Battle of Manila Bay (1898) during the Spanish-American War. Edward Dewey died in Montpelier on October 26, 1900; he is buried in Green Mount Cemetery in that city." . He served in the military in 1864 in Vermont.175,176 He served as Quartermaster of the 8th Vermont Regiment. The 8th Regiment was raised, armed, and equipped in 1861 as a result of a special session of the Legislature called by Governor Fairbanks. Judge Stephen Thomas of West Fairlee, a member of the legislative committee that wrote the bill to raise the troops, was commissioned colonel of the Eighth regiment in November The unit had reported to Camp Holbrook, Brattleboro, Vermont, by January 22, 1862, and left for New York in March. The regiment participated in the occupation of New Orleans in 1862 and saw action in Louisiana in 1862 and 1863. In 1864 the regiment joined the Army of the Shenandoah in the protection of Washington. During that year they saw action at Opequon, Fisher’s Hill, Cedar Creek, and Newton, Virginia. The 8th Vermont was mustered out of service June 28, 1865. . He died on 26 October 1900 at the age of 71 in Montpelier, Washington County, VT.175 Edward DEWEY and Susan Elizabeth LILLEY were married on 27 August 1856.72,123,175 (He was not listed with his parents in the 1850 Census.) They had six children. Susan Elizabeth LILLEY175, daughter of Gibbs LILLEY and Susan Elizabeth GRIGGS, was born in 1834.175 She died in 1909 at the age of 75.175 |