Dewey, Chester P.

Born: 1826-01-10 Pittsfield, Massachusetts

Died: 1899-08-05 Rochester, New York

Flourished: New York

Chester P. Dewey, a lawyer and journalist, graduated from Williams College in 1846, subsequently passing the bar in Rochester, New York, in 1850. Briefly owning a law office, Dewey soon turned to journalism, editing the Rochester Daily American, soon renamed the Democrat and Chronicle. Dewey acted as the editor-in-chief of the paper in 1856 and 1857. In 1858, Dewey covered the Lincoln-Douglas Debateswhile serving as a correspondent for the New York Evening Post. His next role came as editor and sometime managing editor of the Commercial Advertiser of New York, where he worked for seventeen years.

Dewey never married nor had any children.

The Brooklyn Daily Times (NY), 10 August 1899, 2:6; Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2011); New York, U.S., Death Index, 1852-1956 (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2017); William F. Peck; Semi-Centennial History of the City of Rochester (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason, 1884), 352, 354; Obituary Record of the Alumni of Williams College 1885-6 (Baldwinsville, NY: Williams College, 1885), 160; Gravestone, Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY.