Melvil Dewey was born in December 10 1851 in New York. He made his own shoes when he was a young boy. He reorganized his mom's pantry in alphabetical order when he was eight to ten. His family was really smart his dad was the smartest in his family. Melvil went to college at amherst college in massachusetts. Melvils dad owned a shoe company. Melvil worked as a teacher all his kids liked him but he couldn't work there because he talked to fast, and ran around the room every time he talked. Melvil was a librarian at his college. He thought it was unorganized he tried so hard to fix it. One day Melvil was at church and he thought how to organize it. Melvil jumped up out of his seat when he thought how to organize the library