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John Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont, to a family of modest means. [17] He was one of four boys born to Archibald Sprague Dewey and Lucina Artemisia Rich Dewey. Their first son was also named John, but he died in an accident on January 17, 1859.
Alice Chipman Dewey (September 7, 1858 – July 14, 1927) was an American education reformer, philosopher, and feminist.She was instrumental in the development of progressive educational practices alongside her husband, philosopher John Dewey.
Dewey was born in 1889, the second of six children born to the educationalists John Dewey and Alice Chipman Dewey. [1] [2] In 1909, she was studying at Barnard College, New York City, during the time she was involved in the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) and supported the New York shirtwaist strike of 1909.
Thomas Edmund Dewey Jr. (October 2, 1932 – December 6, 2021) [2] [3] was an American businessman in New York City. He was the elder son of Thomas E. Dewey , a former governor of New York and two-time Republican presidential nominee.
Tributes have poured in for a seven-year-old boy and his mother after they were both fatally shot by his father, during a horrific murder-suicide in which five people died in Minnesota. Toys ...
John McCook and his wife, Laurette Spang, have been married for over 40 years ... 1980, and have three children together. Jake McCook was born in 1981, Rebecca McCook was born in 1983, and Molly ...
Jane Mary Dewey was born in Chicago, the daughter (and sixth child) of philosopher John Dewey and educator Alice Chipman Dewey. [1] [2] Her parents named her in honor of Jane Addams, an activist, sociologist, and reformer; and Mary Rozet Smith, a philanthropist who was Addams's longtime companion.
John’s parents Julia and Alfred Lennon first met when they were teenagers and married in secret a decade later in 1938. John was born in 1940 but his parents didn’t raise him – Julia allowed ...