 Melvil Dewey

Melville Louis Kossuth "Melvil" Dewey (December 10, 1851 – December 26, 1931) was an American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, and a founder of the Lake Placid Club.Dewey was born in Adams Center, New York, the fifth and last child of Joel and Eliza Greene Dewey.