In 1929, the Pennsylvania Auditor General’s Office recognized Edwin Carleton Dewey’s long tenure as a state employee. His associates chose him, as the longest serving Auditor General Department employee, to honor another associate who was retiring after numerous years of service.
The next year he attended a similar function in his honor as he retired from Commonwealth service.
For over two decades, Edwin Carleton Dewey (1867–1939) served the Commonwealth as a financial administrator in the State Treasury and Auditor General’s Department. On his retirement, he was one of the Auditor General’s longest tenured staff.
Equally important, during his years in the Harrisburg area, he and his spouse were community leaders in their hometown, New Cumberland …show more content…
4.4 Department of the Auditor General
(1909 – 1919)
Sometime around the year 1909, Mr. Dewey transferred his services to the Auditor General’s Department also located in Harrisburg.
Boyd’s City Directory for Harrisburg and Steelton (1909 edition) lists his position as a Clerk living in the nearby borough of New Cumberland.
The Auditor General is a constitutional officer elected by the people at the general election every fourth year. The Department is one of the oldest in the organization of state government. Prior to 1929, it served as the tax-collecting agency for the Commonwealth with its auditing functions limitedis an elected official whose duties are to examine and settle all accounts all accounts between the Commonwealth and any person, officer, department, association, or corporation.
Edwin Dewey served on the staff of nine Auditors General. They were:
• Robert K. Young (1907 – …show more content…
Aside from his employment with the Commonwealth, he participated in many community activities. These efforts included numerous church activities and laboring in community service with the Masonic Order.
Sometime after the death of his first wife, Edwin Dewey remarried. His new spouse, Belle K. Dewey, received much local acclaim for her community improvement projects while serving as an officer in the New Cumberland Civic Club.
It was in this small municipality, approximately three miles south of Harrisburg along the Susquehanna River, that Edwin Dewey earned an exemplary reputation for community service.
New Cumberland was settled on the site of an old Shawanese Indian village. It used to be called Haldeman’s Town in honor of Jacob M. Haldeman who owned a large forge and rolling mill near the mouth of the creek. It was he who laid it out in 1814 and suggested that it be called New Cumberland. Its primary source of revenue was lumber processing from rafts floated down the Susquehanna to sawmills along the
The next year he attended a similar function in his honor as he retired from Commonwealth service.
For over two decades, Edwin Carleton Dewey (1867–1939) served the Commonwealth as a financial administrator in the State Treasury and Auditor General’s Department. On his retirement, he was one of the Auditor General’s longest tenured staff.
Equally important, during his years in the Harrisburg area, he and his spouse were community leaders in their hometown, New Cumberland …show more content…
4.4 Department of the Auditor General
(1909 – 1919)
Sometime around the year 1909, Mr. Dewey transferred his services to the Auditor General’s Department also located in Harrisburg.
Boyd’s City Directory for Harrisburg and Steelton (1909 edition) lists his position as a Clerk living in the nearby borough of New Cumberland.
The Auditor General is a constitutional officer elected by the people at the general election every fourth year. The Department is one of the oldest in the organization of state government. Prior to 1929, it served as the tax-collecting agency for the Commonwealth with its auditing functions limitedis an elected official whose duties are to examine and settle all accounts all accounts between the Commonwealth and any person, officer, department, association, or corporation.
Edwin Dewey served on the staff of nine Auditors General. They were:
• Robert K. Young (1907 – …show more content…
Aside from his employment with the Commonwealth, he participated in many community activities. These efforts included numerous church activities and laboring in community service with the Masonic Order.
Sometime after the death of his first wife, Edwin Dewey remarried. His new spouse, Belle K. Dewey, received much local acclaim for her community improvement projects while serving as an officer in the New Cumberland Civic Club.
It was in this small municipality, approximately three miles south of Harrisburg along the Susquehanna River, that Edwin Dewey earned an exemplary reputation for community service.
New Cumberland was settled on the site of an old Shawanese Indian village. It used to be called Haldeman’s Town in honor of Jacob M. Haldeman who owned a large forge and rolling mill near the mouth of the creek. It was he who laid it out in 1814 and suggested that it be called New Cumberland. Its primary source of revenue was lumber processing from rafts floated down the Susquehanna to sawmills along the