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John was born third of his parents four sons. Among his three brothers, the eldest, John Archibald Dewey, died in infancy. The second, Davis Rich Dewey, was elder to him by one and half years, while the fourth, Charles Miner Dewey, was younger by another one and half years.
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Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont, to a family of modest means. Like his older brother, Davis Rich Dewey, he attended the University of Vermont, from which he graduated (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1879. A significant professor of Dewey's at the University of Vermont was Henry A. P. Torrey, the son-in-law and nephew of former University of Vermont president Joseph Torrey. Dewey studied privately ...
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John Dewey was born in Burlington, VT, on October 10, 1859. He was the third son of his father, Archibald Dewey, who owned a grocery store in Burlington, and his mother, Lucina Artemisia Rich, the granddaughter of a congressman. His mother had a strong belief in Calvinism, which is a religion whose faith is expressed in terms of good works and mora...
Dewey and his siblings attended public school during their childhood years, after which they got admitted to the University of Vermont, Burlington. During this period, Dewey studied the theory of evolution and he was strongly influenced by the theory of natural selection. This encouraged him to focus on the interaction between environment and man w...
John Dewey published his first two books while working at the University of Michigan. The book entitled Psychology was published in 1887. In 1888, he had his Leibniz’s New Essays Concerning the Human Understandingpublished. Both of these books clearly indicated John’s interest in Hegelian idealism. In 1894, he joined the newly founded University of...
John Dewey made seminal contributions to almost all fields and topics in philosophy. His ideas about education came from a philosophy of pragmatism. For more than 50 years, he was the voice for a progressive and liberal democracy that helped shape America’s as well as world’s destiny. His pragmatic approaches to religion, aesthetics, and ethics als...
Dewey was married twice in his lifetime. Alice Chipman was his first wife with whom he had six children. His second wife was Roberta Lowitz Grant. He died in New York City in 1952 and is buried in Burlington in the Dewey Memorial.
Feb 1, 2018 · Background/Context. The current biographic understanding of John Dewey's experience adopting and raising an Italian boy named Sabino emphasizes the theme of finding an emotional replacement for Morris and Gordon, two young sons who had tragically died on family trips to Europe.
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While vacationing in Italy in the fall of 1894, his youngest son, Morris, died of diphtheria at age two and a half, a loss from which he and Alice never fully recovered. Ten years later, during his second European trip, his eight-year-old son, Gordon, contracted typhoid fever and died in Ireland.
Abstract. This chapter presents an overview of John Dewey's life and work. John Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont, the third of four sons of Archibald Sprague Dewey and Lucina Artemesia Rich Dewey. In 1949, on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday, Dewey was hailed by the New York Times as “America's Philosopher”.
Smith, Warren Allen. “Dewey, John (1854-1952)‚” in Who’s Who in Hell. New York: Barricade Books, 2000. John Dewey was not a member but was a close friend of the Unitarian movement. The memorial service celebrating his life was held at a church with a long-distinguished Unitarian heritage, the Community Church of New York.
