Brief Life History of Richard Frank
When Richard Frank Dean was born on 28 January 1895, in Denison, Grayson, Texas, United States, his father, James Lewis Dean, was 37 and his mother, Nina Collins, was -19. He had at least 3 sons and 6 daughters with Winnie Maude Churchill. He lived in Stinnett, Hutchinson, Texas, United States in 1930 and Justice Precinct 2, Hutchinson, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 25 December 1965, in Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, United States.
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- Unknown, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Richard Frank Dean - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Richard Frank Dean
- Richard Frank Dean, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1901 · Spindletop Oilfield Discovered
Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful "oil boom".
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English dene ‘valley’ (Old English denu), or a habitational name from any of several places in various parts of England named Dean or Dene from this word.
English: nickname or occupational name for the servant of a dean or nickname for someone thought to resemble a dean. A dean was an ecclesiastical official, the head of a chapter of canons or a church official with jurisdiction over a sub-division of an archdeaconry. Though no doubt some deans had illegitimate children, they were officially celibate, and in the main the surname is probably a nickname in origin, similar to Bishop , Prior , Priest , and Monk . The Middle English word deen, dien, dein, is a borrowing of Old French d(e)ien, doien from Latin decanus (originally a leader of ten men, from decem ‘ten’), and thus is a cognate of Deacon .
English: from the Middle English personal name Deyne (or Dene) a rhyming pet form of Reynald (see Reginald ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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