CHRONOLOGY OF JOHN DEWEY'S LIFE AND WORK UPDATED 11/30/16 Compiled by Barbara Levine The following chronology has been a work in progress. Changes were made as Dewey's correspondence was transcribed and as additional information was gathered from other sources. Bracketed material lists the source of that information. It is assumed that Dewey’s permission was granted when listed as a member, sponsor, or signer of an organization or committee. The chronology evolved as work progressed at the Center for Dewey Studies. Due to the closure of The Center, I will no longer be updating this chronology. I would hope that the listing is complete enough to be of use to scholars who are studying and writing about John Dewey. It has been my pleasure to do so! Barbara Levine December, 2016 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 Chicag o, 1896-1 965. Chicag o: Quadra ngle 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 [Daily Free Press, 18 January 1859; Ryan, John Dewey, 42] 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 Rich and Archibald Sprague Dewey, at 186 S. Willard St., Burlington, VT 1861.07.14 Charles Miner Dewey born to Archibald and Lucina Dewey; died 1926.10.27 1864 Family moves to Cumberland, VA, Jane Dewey says "for the last winter of the war" [1933.07.29 (07703); Coughlan, Young John Dewey, 3] 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. 1878.04.24 Faculty votes “that Camp, . D. Dewey, J. Dewey, . .be adjudged each 5 misconduct marks for concerted absence from coll-call at drill.” [Faculty minutes] 1878.06.25 Speaks on origin of mythology, Stone Church on College Street, Burlington [J. Ratner’s notes; 1946.12.01? (20841)] 1878.07.05 Visits [for lunch?] Rogers Rock Hotel, Ticonderoga, NY, with Charles M. Dewey, M. A. Wilson, and Seraph Smith [hotel registry] 1879.06.25 A.B., University of Vermont; delivers University of Vermont commencement day oration, "Limits of Political Economy"; Phi Beta Kappa; Delta Psi [Burlington Free Press Times, 26 June 1879, 3] 1879-1881.06.** Oil City, PA, High School: assistant principal; teaches classics, sciences, and algebra [Ryan, John Dewey, 57-58; Coughlan, Young John Dewey, 8-9] 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; Ryan, John Dewey, 58]; 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; Metaphysical Club minutes] 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 [Metaphysical Club minutes] 1883.04.10 Addresses Metaphysical Club, "Hegel and the Theory of Categories" [Johns Hopkins University Circulars 2, no. 22 (April 1883): 94; Dykhuizen, 35; Metaphysical Club minutes] 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 1883.10.09 Elected “third member of the Executive Committee [Metaphysical Club] for the ensuing year” [Metaphysical Club minutes] 1883.11.13 Addresses Metaphysical Club, "The Psychology of Consciousness" [Johns Hopkins University Circulars 3, no. 28 (January 1884): 46; Metaphysical Club minutes] 1883.12.11 Addresses Metaphysical Club, "Delboeuf on Living and Dead Matter," discusses Joseph Jastrow's paper; additional remarks [Johns Hopkins University Circulars 3, no. 28 (January 1884): 46; Metaphysical Club minutes] 1884.01.17 Addresses Metaphysical Club, remarks on Jastrow's [Peirce’s?] paper, “Chance and Design” [Minute Book of the Johns Hopkins University Metaphysical Club, 79-82; Metaphysical Club minutes] 1884.03.11 Addresses Metaphysical Club, "The New Psychology" [Johns Hopkins University Circulars 3, no. 30 (April 1884): 96; Dykhuizen, 37-38, 335; Metaphysical Club minutes] 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] 1884.11.23 "'The Search for God' was Dr. Dewey's subject before the Student's Christian Association last Sunday" [Ann Arbor Courier, 26 November 1884] 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 1885.01.28? 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 1885.06.** "Instructors Dewey . reappointed" [Ann Arbor Courier, 1 July 1885] 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; Ann Arbor Courier, 9 December 1885] 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,