Henry August Dean

Brief Life History of Henry August

When Henry August Dean was born in February 1880, in Fresno, California, United States, his father, Thomas Hinkley Dean, was 28 and his mother, Minnie Augusta Block, was 19. He married Edna May Williams about 1906, in Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Judicial Township 10, Fresno, California, United States in 1930 and Tollhouse, Fresno, California, United States in 1931. He died on 10 September 1939, in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Tollhouse, Fresno, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Henry August Dean
1880–1939
Edna May Williams
1889–1989
Marriage: about 1906
Daisy Belle Dean
1907–1988
Pat Dean
Thomas Dean
Hazel D Dean
1910–2007
Thomas Henry Dean
1913–1994
Sadie E Dean
1915–1998

Sources (17)

  • August Dean in household of Chas A Yancey, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Henry A Dean, "North Dakota, County Marriages, 1872-1958"
  • Henry August Dean, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

World Events (8)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1883

Historical Boundaries: 1883: McKenzie, Dakota Territory, United States 1889: McKenzie, North Dakota, United States 1896: Billings, North Dakota, United States* 1901: McKenzie, North Dakota, United States** *McKenzie County dissolved and assigned to Billings County **State Supreme Court ruled that McKenzie County remain in existence

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.

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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