Dean, Frank W. (1863-1955)

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Date: 10/21/2019 at 15:56:04

Frank Wilson Dean
Feb 9, 1863 - July 3, 1955

(from Who's Who in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, 1920, compiled and edited by F. C. Lake & L. N. Prince)
F. W. Dean, Physician, Council Bluffs; born Satara, East India, Feb. 9, 1863; Protestant; Republican; educated Doan Academy 1882; Bachelor of Science Doan College, 1886; Doctor of Medicine University of Minnesota, 1890; Fellow American College of Surgeons, 1913; married Sarah Weston, June 10, 1897, Hastings, Nebraska; child. Abbott; Oculist and Aurist for Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and Cedar Rapids, Rock Island & Pacific Railway ; lowa School for the Deaf; Christian Home; member staff of Jennie Edmund Memorial hospital; past trustee of Doan College.; trustee Council Bluffs Free Pub. Bib., 3 terms; member Masons, Elks, Fellow American College Surgeons, member American Medical Society, lowa State Medical Society, Academy of Ophthalmology and Olo-lamigology. Former residences, East India, 5 years.; New Hampshire, 2 years; Georgia, 2 years; Nebraska, until 1886; Minneapolis, Minnesota, 4 years; 1892-93 in Europe.

(from Biographies and Portraits of Progressive Men of Iowa…, by Gue & Shambaugh, 1899, vol.2, p.219-220)
Dr. Frank Wilson Dean is a successful practicing physician in Council Bluffs, where he was practiced since 1895 as a specialist in the eye, ear, nose and throat; in these specialties he has had the best training afforded by the hospitals in Vienna, Leipzic and London. His father, Camuel Chase Dean, was a graduate of Amherst College and Andover Theological Seminary, and was for fourteen years under the American board as a missionary to East India. For nearly twenty years he was engaged in home missionary work in Nebraska. His mother’s maiden name was Augusta E. Abbott, daughter of Dr. Amos Abbott, who was a missionary in East India for twenty-five years. He studied at Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts. Dr. Dean is a descendant of Grindal Chase, who emigrated from England to New England in the early part of the seventeenth century. The doctor is of the ninth generation from the following four men: John Deane of Chard, Somersetshire, England, who arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1637 and later settled in Taunton, Massachusetts; George Abbott, who emigrated from Yorkshire, England about 1640 and was one of the first settlers of Andover, Massachusetts in 1643 – his marriage to Hannah Chandler is recorded in Roxbury church records in the handwriting of John Elliott, the “Indian Apostle”; Thomas Blanchard, who came from Hampshire, England in 1639 and settled in Charleston, Massachusetts – later his descendants moved to Wilton, New Hampshire, and William Randall, who came from England and settled in Scituate, Massachusetts before 1640. One of his ancestors, a Dean, was a color bearer at the battle of Bunker Hill and another, a Chase, received a medal for the part he took in the same battle.
Dr. F. W. Dean was born February 9, 1863, in Satora, India, and was the fourth child in a family of eight. He came from India when 5 years of age with his parents, who, after spending four years in New Hampshire and Georgia, settled in Jefferson County, Nebraska, in 1872. His early education was received at the district school near his father’s home, and he graduated from Doane College at Crete, Nebraska, in 1886, and from the Medical Department of the University of Minnesota in 1890. He almost wholly supported himself while at Doane College by doing odd jobs during term time and working on a farm in vacations. While pursuing his medical studies he paid expenses by surveying during vacations in and around Minneapolis, Minn. He was for a time house surgeon in the St. Paul City Hospital, and he spent eighteen months in general practice in Mineola, Iowa. In September 1892, he went to Europe, and made a special study of the eye, ear, nose and throat in the hospitals of Vienna, Leipzic and London, returning to locate in Council Bluffs in December 1895, to practice these specialties. Dr. Dean was married to Miss Sarah Meston in Hastings, Nebraska, June 10, 1897. He is a member of Fidelity Council, 156, Royal Arcanum. He is oculist and aorist to the W. C. A. hospital of Council Bluffs, and a member of the Iowa State Medical Society, the Medical Society of the Missouri Valley, and the Southwestern Iowa Medical Society and the Council Bluffs Medical Society.