DEAN, Pearl

DEAN, ALLEN, CALKINS, BRADLEY

Posted By: Nettie Mae
Date: 1/18/2003 at 23:41:48

Source: The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.

PEARL DEAN.

The subject of this review is a young and successful farmer residing on section 8 and 9, Sharon township, where he has spent his entire life, his birth having occurred on his present farm September 23, 1867. His parents, Alvin and Malissa (Allen) Dean, were both natives of New York state, and on coming to Clinton county, Iowa, located on the farm which our subject now owns and occupies. Here the father engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1895, when he and his wife removed to Maquoketa, Jackson county, Iowa. Having laid aside all business cares, he is now living in ease and quiet, enjoying the fruits of former toil. In the family were three children: Dora, deceased; Pearl, our subject; and Violet, wife of George Calkins, a carpenter of Maquoketa.

The early education our subject was somewhat limited, as he commenced work on the farm when quite young, and has since devoted his time and energies to its operation. Prosperity has attended his well-directed efforts in life, and he is now carrying on the old home farm of one hundred and sixty acres of well-improved and highly cultivated land on sections 8 and 9, Sharon township. He gives considerable attention to stock raising, which he finds quite profitable.

Mr. Dean married Miss Bertha Bradley, of Jackson, county, Iowa, and to them have been born three children: Lynn, Bernice and Vivian. Socially Mr. Dean is a member of the Fraternal Brotherhood, of Baldwin, Iowa. In politics he is independent, supporting the men whom he believes best qualified for office regardless of party lines.