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Richard Smith Dewey was born on December 6, 1845, in Forestville, New York. He was the son of Elijah and Sophia (Smith) Dewey and a descendant of Thomas Dewey, who was in Dorchester, Massachussets, before 1633. He was the fourth son and fifth child in a family of six children. His father was the village blacksmith and grist-mill owner and a considerable personage in his community; his maternal grandfather was a member of the New York state legislature.
For three momentous years, young Dewey attended the Rural High School at Clinton, New York, conducted by his cousin, the eminent philologist Dr. Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight. Here were promoted not only scholarship but also principles of health and the art of gracious living, and here Dewey was introduced to modern languages, seldom taught in public or private schools of that day. In 1864, after the family moved West, he entered the school of arts of the University of Michigan. Later he transferred to medicine and was graduated in 1869.
Richard Dewey finished a year of internship at the Brooklyn City Hospital just as the Franco-Prussian War began, and he responded to a call from the German Government for American surgeons who could speak German. In the spring of 1871 the war was over, and he was discharged from the army.
Dewey's career in psychiatry began in 1871 on his return from Germany, where he had spent several months studying under the great Virchow in Berlin. He was for a brief time at the Central State Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville, Illinois, then for seven years he was assistant physician at the Elgin State Hospital. At the end of that time he became the first superintendent of the new hospital at Kankakee, Illinois, where he remained fourteen years.
In 1893 the newly elected governor of Illinois, John P. Altgeld, forced indiscriminately the resignation of the state hospital superintendents, including Dewey, in order to create positions for party supporters. Dewey has left on record his own administrative policy; "No employee, when applying for work, was ever questioned as to his politics nor later as to his manner of voting. " A recognized leader among those progressive physicians who instituted reforms and modernized the state hospital services, Dewey devoted twenty-five years, 1895 - 1920, to building up and developing an excellent private sanitarium, Milwaukee Sanitarium, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, which because of the eminence of its director and the superiority of its services attracted patients from near and far.
Dewey also contributed extensively to the literature of psychiatry, dealing particularly with problems of diagnosis, care and treatment, and the administrative and medico-legal implications of mental disability. For three years, 1894 - 1897, he was editor of the American Journal of Insanity (later the American Journal of Psychiatry), the official organ of the American Psychiatric Association. He later served on an editorial board of six members of the association which produced the monumental four-volume history, The Institutional Care of the Insane in the United States and Canada (1916), published under the special editorship of Henry M. Hurd. In this work is Dewey's own account of the cottage-plan innovation at Kankakee which Hack Tuke, who had visited the institution during his superintendency, described as "a very interesting experiment conscientiously carried on by an excellent superintendent. "
Among the offices held by Dewey was nd the chair in mental and nervous diseases at the Post-Graduate Medical School, Chicago. On severing his connection with the Milwaukee Sanitarium in 1920 at the age of seventy-five, Dewey retired to La Canada, California, where he died in 1933.
Richard Dewey is best remembered for introducing the innovation in hospital construction called the "cottage plan, " replacing with comparatively small detached cottages the massive and forbidding structures of the traditional pattern. This "experiment" was quickly followed in new hospital construction in several other states.
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Dewey was president of the American Medico-Psychological Association (later the American Psychiatric Association).
Dewey was twice married. His first wife was Eliza ("Lily") Dwight, daughter of the founder of the Dwight Rural High School he had attended in his youth, to whom he was married on January 2, 1873. She died in 1880, and on June 22, 1886, he was married to Mary E. Brown, a graduate in both medicine and nursing. There were three children by the first marriage, and two by the second.
