Mary Dewey, 104, Dies

Miss MARY JANE DEWEY, who was born in Hanover on August 14, 1837 when Dartmouth was still a "small college" of 322 students including 91 medics; who heard Daniel Webster speak when she was a little girl; and who had reached the ripe old age of 79 when Ernest M. Hopkins became President, died in Hanover on June 18. She was 104 years old.

Miss Dewey, one of eight children, was the daughter of the late George W. and Laura Chedel Dewey. She was born in the Dewey homestead, then located where Wheeler Hall now stands. When she was four years old the family moved to the house on College street, in. which she had lived ever since and in which she died.

Her nearest surviving kin is a nephew, George A. Dewey, 86, who lives with his son in Quincy, Mass.