Harry Arthur Dean (1882-1917)

DEAN, BLUMENSTEIN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 8/20/2020 at 21:35:04

From Nevada Representative November 12, 1917 (page 1)

H. A. DEAN DIED FRIDAY IN CHICAGO

FORMER NEVADA CITIZEN PASSED AWAY AFTER LONG ILLNESS AT HIS HOME IN EASTERN CITY

Friends in this section were shocked on Friday evening to learn of the death of Harry Arthur Dean at his home in Chicago after a short illness during which he had the loving care of his wife as well as his father and mother. On Saturday the body was brought to Nevada on the evening train and after being met by a delegation of the Masonic lodge, was taken to his parents' home on Pine street where it laid in state Sunday morning. At two o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday the funeral was held at the Lutheran church the services being conducted by the Rev. Fred Ross Shirck and the Nevada lodge of Masons, who held a preliminary service in the lodge rooms, marched to the church in body and accompanied the body to its final resting place in Nevada cemetery where the burial was in charge of the Masonic order.

The bearers were J. W. Larsen, Wallace Childs, George Klove, H. M. Vinsel, Walter Finnie and H. W. Dana.

Harry Arthur Dean was the second child of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dean, was born near Sycamore, Ill., Dec. 28, 1882 and died at his home in Cicero, Illinois Nov. 9, 1917. He came to Nevada with the family in October 1893, where he grew to manhood, graduating from the Nevada Public schools in the class of 1900. He married Edyth Blumenstein of Maxwell, March 2, 1904, and took up his residence at Cambridge, Iowa where he was manager of the Cambridge Telephone Company. Later they moved to Nevada where Mrs. Dean was connected with the Story County Independent Telephone Company. In 1911 the family moved to Cicero, where Mr. Dean was employed in the Engineering Department of the Western Electric Co. At the time of his death he held the position of engineer at the Imperial Brass Works in Chicago. One son Edwin Wendell, age 11 years with the wife are left besides the parents Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dean, an older brother Byron M. Dean of Seattle, Wash., one sister Miss Caroline Dean, a teacher at Hubbard, Iowa and younger brother John George Dean, attending Iowa State College.