Charles H. Dewey memoirs (1885-1943, 1944, 1976)

Creator: Dewey, Charles H. (Charles Homer), 1885-1976

Date: [created] 1940-1976

Level of Description: Coll./Record Group

Material Type: Manuscripts

Call Number: Ms. Coll. 816, also available on Kansas Memory: http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/211977 (Available on Kansas Memory: http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/211977)

Unit ID: 222066

Restrictions: There are no restrictions on access to this collection.

Biographical sketch: Educator, U.S. Army officer, federal employee; of Randolph, Grenola, Wichita, Kan.

Abstract: A memoir of Charles H. Dewey's life to 1943 and postscripts dated 1944 and 1976. Included are recollections of his life on the farm near Piedmont, Kan.; studies at the Kansas State Normal School (Emporia) (now Emporia State University, Kansas); work as a teacher & school superintendent, the latter at Randolph & Grenola, Kan.; college & medical school at the University of Kansas; medical practice in Buffalo & Elk City, Kan., during the Great Depression; and military service as a physician at Civilian Conservation Corps camps in Kansas, Missouri, & the western United States and a prisoner of war camp at Camp Joseph T. Robinson in North Little Rock, Ark. The memoirs also describe farm life and the agricultural economy in the late 1880s and the political debate over the Spanish-American War.

Space Required/Quantity: 0.2 feet (1 box) : photocopies ; 28 cm.

Title (Main title): Charles H. Dewey memoirs (1885-1943, 1944, 1976)

Titles (Other):

Charles H. Dewey papers
Memoirs [Portion of title]
Memoirs of Charles Homer Dewey

Biography

Biog. Sketch (Full): Charles Homer Dewey was born in 1885. He was a rural school teacher from 1907 through 1911; superintendent of schools at Randolph and Grenola, Kansas, from 1914 through 1918; served in the United States Army from 1933 through 1946, achieving the rank of major in the Medical Corps; served on the Rating Board at the Veterans Administration, the current Department of Veterans Affairs, in Wichita, Kansas, from 1947 until 1955; and retired at the age of seventy years. His wife's name was Bertha. He died in 1976.

Scope and Content

Scope and content:

This is a memoir of Charles H. Dewey's life to 1943 and postscripts dated 1944 and 1976. Included are recollections of his life on the farm near Piedmont, Kan.; studies at the Kansas State Normal School at Emporia, now Emporia State University in Kansas; work as a teacher and school superintendent, the latter at Randolph and Grenola, Kan.; college and medical school at the University of Kansas in Lawrence and Kansas City; medical practice in Buffalo and Elk City, Kansas, during the Great Depression; and military service as a physician at Civilian Conservation Corps camps in Kansas, Missouri, and the western United States and a prisoner of war camp at Camp Joseph T. Robinson in North Little Rock, Arkansas. The memoirs also describe farm life and the agricultural economy in the late 1880s and the political debate over the Spanish-American War.

The memoirs cover all aspects of Dewey's life from birth to adulthood. His varied experiences and accomplishments have been of distinct public appeal and interest, and such personal histories are normally so interwoven with the threads of life's relationships as to be only not only an individual chronicle but also a picture of social and political life of the times. The memoir is divided into forty-three chapters and includes photograph images.

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041-02-04-03	Also available via Kansas Memory, Electronic resource. Topeka, Kan. : Kansas State Historical Society, c2007-14; ǂu http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/211977

Bibliography

Finding Aid Bibliography: "Charles H. Dewey in the U.S. City Directories," Ancestry.com website; http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?new=1&gsfn=Charles+Homer&gsln=dewey&rank=1&gss=angs-g&mswpn__ftp=Wichita%2c+Sedgwick%2c+Kansas%2c+USA&mswpn=72901&mswpn_PInfo=8-|0|1652393|0|2|3249|19|0|2661|72901|0|&msbdy=1895&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=1056518087&db=USDirectories&indiv=1&ml_rpos=40 (viewed 6 Jan. 2015)

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Additional Information for Researchers

Restrictions: There are no restrictions on access to this collection.

Use and reproduction: Notice: This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code). The user is cautioned that the publication of the contents of this collection may be construed as constituting a violation of literary property rights. These rights derive from the principle of common law, affirmed in the copyright law of 1976 as amended, that the writer of an unpublished letter or other manuscript has the sole right to publish the contents thereof unless he or she affirmatively parts with that right; the right descends to his or her legal heirs regardless of the ownership of the physical manuscript itself. It is the responsibility of a user or his or her publisher to secure the permission of the owner of literary property rights in unpublished writing.

Ownership/Custodial Hist.: Photocopy from the original optical disk owned by the lender containing scanned images of pages. Originally in the Kansas State Historical Society Kansas library collection.

Add'l physical form: Also available via Kansas Memory, Electronic resource. Topeka, Kan. : Kansas State Historical Society, c2007-14; http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/211977

Reproduction: Photocopy. [Topeka, Kan.? : Kansas State Historical Society?, 2007?]

Cite as: Charles H. Dewey Memoirs, 1940-1976, Ms. Collection 816, Library & Archives Division, Kansas State Historical Society.

Action note: Finding aid prepared by Debra A. Riley, 2008.

Holder of originals: Kansas State Historical Society (Topeka).

Notes

General Note: P. 102-4 lacking, presumably mis-numbered.