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Dean, John Ward

journalist, author, was born March 13, 1815, in Wiscaset, Maine. He was vice-president of the American Statistical association, and its recording secretary during 1860-72. He was one of the founders of the Prince society in 1858, and for ten years was its president. He is now the librarian of the New England Historic-Genealogical society of Boston, Mass.; has been the sole editor of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register since 1876; the editor of The New England Bibliopolist since 1880. He is the author of Memoir of Nathaniel Ward; Memoir of Michael Wigglesworth; Life of John H. Sheppard; Life of William Blanchard Towne; Brief Memoir of Giles Firmin; and The Embarkation of Cromwell for New England.

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