Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey (December 10, 1851 – December 26, 1931) was an American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal

Dewey Decimal Classification

Dewey Decimal Classification, is a proprietary system of library classification developed by Melvil Dewey in 1876.It has been greatly modified and expanded through 23 major revisions, the most recent in 2011...

 system of library classification, and a founder of the Lake Placid Club

Lake Placid Club

The Lake Placid Club was a social and recreation club founded 1895 in Lake Placid, New York by Melvil Dewey, and intended as a place where educators might find health, strength and inspiration at modest cost...

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Dewey was born in Adams Center, New York

Adams Center, New York

Adams Center is a hamlet located in the Town of Adams in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The population was 1,500 at the 2000 census.- History :...

, the fifth and last child of Joel and Eliza Greene Dewey. He attended rural schools and determined early that his destiny was to be a reformer in educating the masses.