Jan­u­a­ry 6, 1806, Wes­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts.

Ju­ly 6, 1873, Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts.

Hews be­gan teach­ing mu­sic in Bos­ton around 1830. He al­so sang in the Han­del and Haydn So­ci­e­ty, and was its vice pres­i­dent (1854-58). In 1840, he found­ed a pi­a­no man­u­fac­tur­ing con­cern, and ev­en ob­tained sev­er­al pi­a­no pa­tents, one of them called the Hews Pa­tent Amer­i­can Act­ion. Hews al­so played the or­gan at the Brat­tle Street Church, and host­ed meet­ings of the Har­vard Me­di­cal As­socia­tion, which made him an hon­o­ra­ry mem­ber.

• Hughes, pp. 425-26
• Nutter, p. 458
• Reynolds, p. 317

1. Holley