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CHRONOLOGY OF JOHN DEWEY'S LIFE AND WORK The following chronology, compiled by Barbara Levine, is a work in progress. Changes are made almost daily as Dewey's correspondence is transcribed and as additional information is gathered from other sources. It is presented here not as definitive and final, then, but as an evolving research tool. It is our hope that its users will submit additions and corrections as appropriate, along with supporting verification or documentation, to Barbara Levine at [email protected]. The chronology will be updated periodically as new information is received and edited. Frequently Cited Sources: EW: The Early Works of John Dewey, 1882-1898 MW: The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924 LW: The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953 John Dewey Correspondence: Sources within brackets refer to correspondence located at the Center for Dewey Studies and include the document date and control number. Clopton, Robert W., and Tsuin-Chen Ou, eds. John Dewey: Lectures in China, 1919-1920. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1973. DePencier, Ida B. The History of the Laboratory Schools. The University of Chicago, 1896- 1965. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1967. Dykhuizen, George. The Life and Mind of John Dewey. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973. Eastman, Max. "John Dewey." Atlantic Monthly 168 (December 1941): 671-85. Savage, Willinda. The Evolution of John Dewey's Philosophy of Experimentalism as Developed at the University of Michigan. Ph.D. Dissertation, Publ. No. 1999, University of Michigan, 1950. Thomas, Milton Halsey. John Dewey, A Centennial Bibliography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. 1856.07.15 John Archibald Dewey (JD's brother) born to Archibald Sprague and Lucina Artemisia (Artemesia) Rich Dewey 1858.04.07 Davis Rich Dewey born to Archibald and Lucina Dewey; died 1942.12.13 1858.09.07 Harriet (Hattie) Alice Chipman Dewey born to Gordon Orlen Chipman and Lucy Woodruff Riggs Chipman, Fenton, MI 1859.01.18 John Archibald Dewey dies 1859.08.20-1864.04.01 Archibald and Lucina Dewey purchase home at 186 S. Willard St.; sold on 1 April 1864 [1950.01.18 (13666)] 1859.10.20 Born to Lucina and Archibald Dewey, at 186 S. Willard St., Burlington, VT 1861.07.14 Charles Miner Dewey born to Archibald and Lucina Dewey; died 1926.10.27 1863-1867? Family moves to Cumberland, VA, Jane Dewey says "for the last winter of the war" [1933.07.29 (07703)] 1864.04.01 Sells house on Willard Street [1950.01.18 (13666)] 1867-1876 Returns to Burlington; lives at 14 George St. [1933.07.29 (07703); 1949.10.15 (13656)] 1867.09.** Enters grammar school in District School No. 3, later called North Grammar School 1872.09.** Enters Burlington High School 1875.06.**? Graduates, Burlington High School 1875.09.** Enters University of Vermont [1949.10.15 (13656)] 1876-1889 Deweys own home at 178 S. Prospect St. 1878.07.05 Visits [for lunch?] Rogers Rock Hotel, Ticonderoga, NY, with Charles M. Dewey, M. A. Wilson, and Seraph Smith 1879.06.25 A.B., University of Vermont; delivers University of Vermont commencement day oration, "Limits of Political Economy"; Phi Beta Kappa; Delta Psi 1879-1881.06.** Oil City, PA, High School: assistant principal; teaches classics, sciences, and algebra 1881.12.05 Organizes Young People's Society, First Congregational Church, Burlington; first president 1881-1882 Teaches (principal) at Lake View Seminary, Charlotte, VT [Gazetteer and Business Directory of Chittenden County, Vermont for 1882-83. Syracuse, NY: Hamilton Child, 1882]; studies philosophy under H. A. P. Torrey; spends weekends in Burlington 1882-1884 Graduate student, philosophy department, Johns Hopkins University; resides at 66 and 91 Saratoga St. 1882.04.** "The Metaphysical Assumptions of Materialism" published [EW1] 1882.07.** "The Pantheism of Spinoza" published [EW1] 1882.12.12 Addresses Metaphysical Club, "Knowledge and the Relativity of Feeling" [Johns Hopkins University Circulars 2, no. 20 (December 1882): 38; Dykhuizen, 34, 335] 1883-1884 Fellow of Johns Hopkins University [Johns Hopkins University Circulars 2, no. 25 (August 1883): 155; ibid. 3, no. 27 (November 1883): 18] 1883.01.** "Knowledge and the Relativity of Feeling" published [EW1] 1883.01.16 Addresses Metaphysical Club, writings of T. H. Green 1883.04.10 Addresses Metaphysical Club, "Hegel and the Theory of Categories" [Johns Hopkins University Circulars 2, no. 22 (April 1883): 94; Dykhuizen, 35] 1883.06.** Plans to return to Burlington for summer [1883.05.14 (01470)] 1883.10.09 Addresses Metaphysical Club, remarks on George Sylvester Morris's paper 1883.11.13 Addresses Metaphysical Club, "The Psychology of Consciousness" [Johns Hopkins University Circulars 3, no. 28 (January 1884): 46] 1883.12.11 Addresses Metaphysical Club, "Delbouef on Living and Dead Matter," discusses Joseph Jastrow's paper; additional remarks [Johns Hopkins University Circulars 3, no. 28 (January 1884): 46] 1884.01.17 Addresses Metaphysical Club, remarks on Jastrow's paper 1884.03.11 Addresses Metaphysical Club, "The New Psychology" [Johns Hopkins University Circulars 3, no. 30 (April 1884): 96; Dykhuizen, 37-38, 335] 1884.04.** "Kant and Philosophic Method" published [EW1] 1884.06.05 Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University [Johns Hopkins University Circulars 3, no. 31 (June 1884): 119] 1884.07.19 Accepts position as instructor in philosophy at University of Michigan [Proceedings of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, from January, 1881, to January, 1886, June 1884, 482; 1884.07.19 (00430)] 1884.09.** Responsible for Bible Class formed by Students' Christian Association [Monthly Bulletin 6 (October 1884): 20-21; Savage, 133] 1884.09.** "The New Psychology" published [EW1] 1884.10.15 Addresses Philosophical Society, "Mental Evolution and Its Relations to Psychology" ["An Able Paper by Dr. Dewey on Mental Evolution," Michigan Argonaut 3 (18 October 1884): 1; Chronicle 16 (8 November 1884): 44; Minutes and Constitution of the Philosophical Society of the University of Michigan, 1884; Ann Arbor Courier, 15 October 1884; Ann Arbor Democrat, 17 October 1884; Dykhuizen, 338] 1884.10.15 Admitted to membership in Philosophical Society [Minutes and Constitution of the Philosophical Society of the University of Michigan, 1884] 1884.11.** Addresses Students' Christian Association, "The Obligation to Knowledge of God" 1884.11.** "The Obligation to Knowledge of God" published [EW1] 1884.11.02 Joins First Congregational Church of Ann Arbor; "Dismissed without letter," 30 March 1898 [Membership Roll, 1847-1906, First Congregational Church of Ann Arbor Records] 1884.12.** Attends 27th annual dinner of the New England Society; gives toast to the state of Vermont [Savage, 164; Ann Arbor Register, 25 December 1884] 1884.**.** Addresses Philosophical Society, "Hegel and Recent Thought" 1885-1887 Samovar Club, University of Michigan 1885.02.** Attends Philosophical Society meeting, discusses educational trends [Savage, 124; Ann Arbor Courier, 4 February 1885] 1885.03.03 Addresses Metaphysical Club, remarks on Levermore's paper 1885.06.14 Episcopal Sunday School "excursion" [1885.06.25 (00014)] 1885.06.15-09.15 Summer in Burlington 1885.09.05 "Doctor Martineau's Theory of Morals" published [LW17] 1885.09.19 "The Health of Women and Higher Education" published [LW17] 1885.09.30 Fall term begins, University of Michigan 1885.10.16 "Education and the Health of Women" published [EW1] 1885.10.** Umpires Lawn Tennis tournament [Michigan Argonaut, 7 November 1885] 1885.12.05 "The Revival of the Soul" published [LW17] 1885.12.22 Leaves for Detroit; arrives Lapeer, MI [1885.12.22 (00008); 1885.12.23 (00007)] 1885.12.26 "The Church and Society" published [LW17] 1885.12.31 In Ann Arbor [1885.12.31 (00002)] 1886.01.01 Party at Morris's [1885.12.31 (00002)] 1886.01.02 "Science and the Idea of God," review of The Idea of God as Affected by Modern Knowledge, published [LW17] 1886.01.23 "What Is the Demonstration of Man's Spiritual Nature?" published [LW17] 1886.01.31 Addresses Students' Christian Association, "Faith and Doubt" [Michigan Chronicle 17 (30 January 1886): 134; Monthly Bulletin, January 1886, 56; Dykhuizen, 50, 338] 1886.01.** "The Psychological Standpoint" published [EW1] 1886.02.27 One of founders of Michigan Schoolmasters' Club, Cook House, Ann Arbor [Savage, 156; Ann Arbor Courier, 3 March 1886; Michigan Argonaut, 6 March 1886, 160-61; Journal of the Michigan Schoolmasters' Club, 1927, 113; Dykhuizen, 51, 339] 1886.03.** "Health and Sex in Higher Education" published [EW1] 1886.04.14 Addresses Political Science Association on "the rise of great industries and their effects on the working class" [Savage, 164; Ann Arbor Register, 29 April 1886; 1886.04.15 (00044)] 1886.04.16 "Inventory of Philosophy Taught in American Colleges" published [EW1] 1886.04.** "Soul and Body" published [EW1] 1886.04.** "Psychology as Philosophic Method" published [EW1] 1886.05.01 Addresses Michigan Schoolmasters' Club, "Psychology in High-Schools from the Standpoint of the College" [Proceedings of the Michigan Schoolmasters Club, 1886; Dykhuizen, 339; Savage, 157] 1886.05.05 Addresses Political Science Association, "The Rise of Great Industries" [Michigan Argonaut 4 (10 April 1886): 191; ibid. 4 (8 May 1886): 224] 1886.06.**? Alice Chipman graduates from University of Michigan, Ph.B. [Register 1872-1888, Literary Department] 1886.06.30 Appointed Assistant Professor of Philosophy [Proceedings of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, 1886-1891, June 1886, 34; Detroit Free Press,