Beginning of daily diary entries. First entry: "Worked on Irvings threshing machine."
Lyster Dewey marries the love of his life, Etta Conkling.
Lyster Dewey graduates from Michigan Agricultural College and begins teaching botany there.
Lyster Dewey begins work at USDA as assistant to the botanist after competing with 6 other candidates.
Lyster Dewey begins study of hemp and other fiber plants at the USDA.
USDA publishes "The Cultivation of Hemp in the United States" written by Lyster Dewey. This is the first comprehensive overview of hemp cultivation in the U.S.
Lyster Dewey starts a 4-month journey to an international Fiber Congress in Surabaya Indonesia.
USDA publishes Bulletin 404, a study on using hemp hurds to make paper as an alternative to trees. Lyster Dewey is the co-author along with USDA paper plant chemist, Jason L. Merrill.
Lyster Dewey retires from the USDA.
Lyster Dewey testifies at Marijuana Tax Act hearings.
Lyster Dewey publishes "Fiber Production in the Western Hemisphere" which is USDA Misc. Publication No. 518.
Lyster Dewey dies on November 27, 1944, at the age of 79 in Kenmore, New York.
Lyster Dewey graduates from Michigan Agricultural College and begins teaching botany there. 
Lyster Dewey begins work at USDA as assistant to the botanist after competing with 6 other candidates.
Lyster Dewey begins study of hemp and other fiber plants at the USDA.
Lyster Dewey starts a 4-month journey to an international Fiber Congress in Surabaya Indonesia.
USDA publishes Bulletin 404, a study on using hemp hurds to make paper as an alternative to trees. Lyster Dewey is the co-author along with USDA paper plant chemist, Jason L. Merrill. 
Lyster Dewey publishes "Fiber Production in the Western Hemisphere" which is USDA Misc. Publication No. 518.