Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2013, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Karen D. Foster for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================== U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================== Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. ========================================================================== SOURCE: History of Genesee County, Michigan pub. Everts and Abbott - 1879 Page 182 GEORGE M. DEWEY The life of this gentleman has been comparatively uneventful, marked by few incidents save such as occur in the life of every successful business man. Industrious, sagacious, and enterprising, and so thoroughly identified with the material interests and development of Genesee County that a sketch of his life will be appropriate at this time and in this connection. Mr. Dewey was born at Canandaigua, N. Y., Jan. 1, 1817. His father, Ebenezer B. Dewey, was from Vermont, and returned to that State in 1822, where he was largely interested in staging between Albany and Montreal. In 1848 he came to Genesee Co., Mich., where he now resides on a farm in Mount Morris, at the advanced age of ninety years. The immediate subject of this sketch was educated at the Royalton Acadamy, Vermont. After leaving school he was clerk for his father in the stage-office until 1837, when he came to Michigan, stopping at Detroit one year. He came to Flint in the fall of 1838, with a stock of goods, and opened a general store, in which business he continued until 1843, when he sold the stock and good-will to his brothers, Charles E. and D. D. Dewey. When Mr. Dewey commenced business at Flint, the Indians were not only numerous but well represented among his customers, bringing to him their characteristic commodity, furs, which were exchanged for goods, and constituted an important part of the commerce of the country. Mr. Dewey saw in the fertile soil and dense forests of the new country future wealth, and commenced buying land soon after his arrival. He has continued to purchase and sell lands from that time to the present, making it the business of his life, and being one of the largest land-owners in the State. He has also been largely interested in agriculture; has improved and now owns several fine farms. The home, or "Dewey farm," in Mount Morris embraces more than six hundred acres improved. He was one of the first to advocate the formation of a county agricultural society. He was also one of the projectors of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad, and was its first president. Politically, Mr. Dewey is a Republican, and although not an office-seeker he has been honored with several important positions, notable among which was that of Receiver of Public Money for the United States Land-office at Flint, under Presidents Taylor and Fillmore. In 1848, Mr. Dewey married Miss Ellen, youngest daughter of Judge Simeon Cummings, of Batavia, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey have been identified with St. Paul's Church at Flint since its organization; he has served as vestryman, assisted in building the first church, and contributed liberally towards the erection of the present church edifice. In social relations Mr. Dewey is genial and companionable; in business matters prompt and reliable; and as a citizen, respected and influential. ==========================================================================