Ancestry of
Melvil Dewey

Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System

Melville Louis Kossuth "Melvil" Dewey

View famous kin of Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey

• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Joel Dewey 
  • Mother:
  • Eliza Green   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Dec 1851 
  • Birth Location:
  • Adams Center, Jefferson, New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Dec 1931 
  • Death Location:
  • Lake Placid, Highlands, Florida 
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  • Burial Location:
  • North Elba Cemetery, North Elba, Essex, New York 
  • Notes: 

  • Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System

• Marriages for Melville Louis Kossuth "Melvil" Dewey

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  • Spouse:
  • Annie Roberts Godfrey
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Oct 1878
  • Marriage Location:
  • Milford, Worcester, Massachusetts

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  • Spouse:
  • Emily McKay

• Sources for Melville Louis Kossuth "Melvil" Dewey

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/25/2018).
  • ² Dewey, Adelbert M., et. al., Life of George Dewey, Rear Admiral, U.S.N., and Dewey Family History, Westfield, Massachusetts: Dewey Publishing Company (1898), 641, 698-703.
  • ³ Wikipedia, "Melvil Dewey", (accessed 10/25/2018).