Dutton J. Hewetson

Dutton J. Hewetson came to Dayton from Newport in 1884.  He was elected to council in March, 1889, and has been re-elected at each election since.  He is a member of  Joe Hooker Post, No. 16, G.A.R., Henry Barnes Lodge, No. 607, F. & A. M. and Dora Chapter, No. 9, Order of the Eastern Star, and has filled various offices in these organizations.  Mr. Hewetson was with DeCamp, Levoy & Co., of Cincinnati, for twenty-six years, until the dissolution of the firm in 1897.  He is now in the real estate and insurance business in Dayton.  He was a member of company "E" Eighth Kentucky Cavalry, from Newport, and afterwards in the Second Ohio Cavalry, up tot he close of the civil war.

The GAR (a short history of the organization is at this site) held it's annual encampment in Dayton in September,1898.  All of the Dayton images and texts dated 1898 are from the souvenir booklet prepared for the occasion.