Brief Life History of Mary B
When Mary B Dean was born on 10 March 1819, in Barnard, Windsor, Vermont, United States, her father, Seth Dean Jr, was 33 and her mother, Martha Crocker French, was 25. She married Nathaniel Dean on 29 August 1839, in Barnard, Windsor, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Bethlehem, Albany, New York, United States in 1850 and Lyons Township, Mills, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. She died on 3 July 1904, in Mills, Iowa, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Glenwood Cemetery, Glenwood, Mills, Iowa, United States.
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- Mary B Dean in household of Nathaniel Dean, "United States Census, 1870"
- Mary B. Dean, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mary Dean in entry for Maria Dean, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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World Events (8)
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1827 · Slavery Becomes Illegal in New York State
During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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