John M. Mc Crary settles Dewey

On March 14, 1864, John C. Dewey left Calls Fort and settled at Empey Springs. This site had been purchased from William Empey. Empey’s Springs became known as Dewey’s Springs. From 1864 until 1868 only three families had joined the Deweys: John P. Barnard, John Allen and Elizabeth Lasley came from Calls Fort.

In the spring of 1868 other settlers came to take up land including Benjamin Gardner from Ogden, John Memory from Willard, and Henry Marble and Milo V. Gardner from Brigham City. They all built log houses in somewhat close proximity and laid the foundation of another community. Jude Levi Dewey was the first child born in the community. William Walker Howard came to Dewey’s Springs in 1865, while the Germers, Fryers, Beetons, and Childs family moved to the locality in 1869.