Cyril James Dew (1889 - 1975)

Cyril's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Dew family tree.

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Cyril's Parents

Louisa Rosina Dew

James Dew

Eulie Grace Dew Cyril James Dew

Albert Thomas Dew Edith Annie Dew

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Louisa Rosina Dew

c. 1850 - Jun 22, 1935

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James Dew

Unknown - Unknown

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Albert Thomas Dew

Jun 3, 1873 - Aug 13, 1954

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Eulie Grace Dew

Jan 2, 1878 - Unknown

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Edith Annie Dew

May 24, 1887 - Unknown

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Cyril James Dew & Helen Gladys Dew (Beacham)

Cyril James Dew

Helen Gladys Dew (Beacham)

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Helen Gladys Dew (Beacham)

1889 - Jan 3, 1974

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Kathleen Beacham & Cyril and Gladys Dew

Cyril Dew, 1912

Cyril James Dew (on the right)

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In 1889, in the year that Cyril James Dew was born, on March 4th, Benjamin Harrison became the 23rd President of the United States. His grandfather, William Henry Harrison, was the 9th President of the United States. His father, John Scott Harrison - son of William Henry - was in the U.S. House of Representatives.

In 1905, Cyril was 16 years old when the Niagara Falls conference was held in Fort Erie, Ontario. Led by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter, a group of African-American men met in opposition to racial segregation and disenfranchisement. Booker T. Washington had been calling for policies of accommodation and conciliation and these two men, along with the others who attended the conference, felt that this was accomplishing nothing. The group was the precursor to the NAACP.

In 1923, at the age of 34 years old, Cyril was alive when the Teapot Dome scandal became the subject of an investigation by Senator Walsh and severely damaged the reputation of the Harding administration. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall was convicted of accepting bribes from oil companies and became the first Cabinet member to go to prison. At the time, the Teapot Dome scandal was seen as "greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics".

In 1931, Cyril was 42 years old when on May 1st, the Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 1,454 feet (including the roof and antenna), it was the tallest building in the world until the World Trade Center's North Tower was built in 1970. (It is now the 34th tallest.) Opening at the beginning of the Great Depression, most of the offices in the Empire State Building remained unoccupied for years and the observation deck was an equal source of revenue and kept the building profitable.

In 1975, in the year of Cyril James Dew's passing, on September 5th, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme tried to assassinate President Ford in Sacramento, California. She failed when her gun wouldn't fire. President Ford escaped a second assassination attempt 17 days later on September 22 when Sarah Jane Moore tried to shoot him in San Francisco. A bystander saw her raise her arm, grabbed it, and the shot went wild.