Melville Lewis Cossoth Dewey

Melville Lewis Cossoth Dewey was born on December 10th, 1851 in Adam's Center, Upstate New York. At the time, this was known as the burned over district due to the fact that successive waves of evangelical Christian movements had swept the area repeatedly during the half century before Melville's birth. The burned over district gave us monism, millerism, the Oneida colony, a huge influential chunks of the suffrage and abolitionist movement, as well as the temperance movement. This is not like comfortable country. Even with modern technology, it fucking sucks.