Dewey Street
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Worcester has a Dewey street NOT named after Adm. George Dewey, the hero of Manila Bay.
The Worcester man was Francis Henshaw Dewey. The eldest son of Charles A. Dewey, a district attorney, he was born in Williamstown, July 12, 1821, and was graduated from Williams College in 1840.
After studying law at Yale and Harvard Law Schools and in Northampton, he came to Worcester. A year and a month later, he was admitted to the bar. Mr. Dewey formed a partnership with Emory Washburn. That lasted a year, for Mr. Washburn became a judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He was Governor of Massachusetts in 1853-4.
Dewey practiced alone for six years, then formed a partnership with Hartley Williams.
Five years later, Dewey was elected to the Massachusetts State Senate; was Republican candidate for president of that group; served as chairman of its judiciary committee.
Fourteen years later, in 1869, he became a justice of the Superior Court. He resigned in 1881.
He became one of the largest stockholders of the Washburn & Moen Company, whose plant became the North Works of the American Steel & Wire Co.
He became vice-president of the Worcester Gas Light Co.
He became president of the board of directors of the Public Library. The board of trustees of the Home for Aged Men elected him president. So did the Worcester County Horticultural Society.
Francis Henshaw Dewey also became president of the Norwich & Worcester Railroad Co.
Dewey street, which appeared in 1855, runs from Pleasant street south to Charlotte street.
The core of this article comes from A History of Your City Streets.
