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Dean, Amos – Dean, Richard E

Dean, Amos

lawyer, author, was born Feb. 16, 1803, in Barnaru, Vt. He was a jurist of Albany, and the author of Lectures on Phrenology; Manual of Law; Philosophy of Human Life; Medical Jurisprudence; Bryant and Stratton's Commercial Law; and History of Civilization. He died in 1868.

Dean, Benjamin

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 14, 1824, in England. He moved to Boston, was a member of the state senate in 1862, 1863 and 1869, and successfully contested the seat of Walbridge A. Field as a representative from Massachusetts to the fortyfifth congress, and took his seat in 1878.

Dean, Ezra

congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1841 to 1845.

Dean, Gilbert

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 14, 1819, in Pleasant Valley, N. Y. He was elected a representative in congress from New York from 1851 to 1853.

He was reelected for a second term but resigned, in 1855, to accept the office of judge of the supreme court of the state, and in 1862 was elected to the assembly. He died Oct. 12, 1870, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Dean, Henry Munson

physician, surgeon, was born Nov. 8, 1836, in Canaan, Conn. He was a surgeon in the United States army during the civil war. He has been president of the Iowa and Illinois Central Medical association; and of the Muscatine Academy of Medicine.

Dean, James

educator, was born Nov. 26, 1776, in Windsor, Vt. He was professor in the university of Vermont, holding that office from 1821 till 1824. He published a Gazetteer of Vermont; and an address delivered on his induction as professor. He died Jan. 20, 1849, in Burlington, Vt.

Dean, John

physician, author, was born in 1831, in Massachusetts. He was a physician who published Microscopic Anatomy of the Lumbar Enlargement of the Spinal Cord; and Gray Substance of the Medulla Oblongata. He died in 1888.

Dean, Josiah

state senator, congressman, was born March 16, 1748, in Baynham, Mass. He was a presidential elector in 1805; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1807 to 1809. From 1804 to 1807 he was a state senator; and in 1810 and 1811 was a member of the state legislature. He died Oct. 14, 1818.

Dean, Julia

actress, was born July 22, 1830, in Pleasant Valley, N. Y. She appeared first as Lady Ellen in The Lady of the Lake, during 1845, in Louisville, Ky.

She died March 6, 1868, in New York city.

Dean, Oliver Hayes

lawyer, was born in 1845, in Washingtonville, Pa. He is a member of the law firm of Warner, Dean and Hageman, Kansas City, Mo.; and is one of the leading members of his profession in his state.

Dean, Paul

clergyman, author, was born in 1789 in Barnard, Vt. He was a unitarian clergyman, pastor in Boston, in 1813-40, and the author of Lectures on Final Restoration. He died Oct. 1, 1860, in Framingham, Mass.

Dean, Richard E

journalist, poet, was born Jan. 18, 1862, in Philadelphia, Pa. He attended the public schools of his native city and Iowa, and took a course in journalism in a college at Detroit. He has written extensively both prose and verse for the periodical press, and is well known as an Iowa poet.