Brief Life History of Otto Levester
When Otto Levester Dean was born in 1885, in Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, William Abner Dean, was 34 and his mother, Emmaline Isabel Stright, was 27. He lived in Deer Creek Township, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900 and Mahoning Township, Lawrence, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910. He died on 19 June 1957, in Cool Spring, Coolspring Township, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 72.
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- Otto Dean in household of Simon Unangst, "United States Census, 1910"
- Otto Levester Dean, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- Obituary - Otto L. Dean
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
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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