Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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FRANK A. DEAN

Frank A. DEAN, druggist, Dunlap, Iowa, is a native of Clinton County, Iowa, born October 2, 1866, son of H.F. and E. P. (PELHAN) DEAN, natives of New York State, but now residents of West Side, Iowa.

The father of our subject removed to Iowa from the Empire State in 1857. He was married in 1865, at the close of the war. He served in company H, Twenty-sixth Iowa Infantry. He entered the service as Color-Sergeant and was discharged as First Lieutenant. He has always followed farming and stock raising. He and his wife are the parents of seven children; Frank A., Alfred S., a resident of Gowrie, Iowa; Jessie is a teacher in the Dunlap schools; Dasie, Grace, Boran and Claude

Frank A. was educated in the common schools, and when twelve years of age entered the drug store in West Side, where he remained one year and then went to Arcadia, where he remained five years.

The next year he spent in Carroll, and in 1885 came to Dunlap and entered the employ of L. G. TYLER, with whom he was employed for one year, at the end of which time he formed a co-partnership with Ed. Lehan, under the firm name of F. A. Dean & Co., who are now carrying about a $6,000 stock, and their sales amount to $20,000 per annum. They have a fine business house, well furnished with all that pertains to a first-class drug store.

Mr. DEAN was married October 7, 1887, to Miss Minnie BICKFORD. They are the parents of two children; Minnie, born July 29, 1888, Hazel, March 16, 1891.

Mr. DEAN is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Hospitable Lodge, No. 244, A. F. & A. M.; Golden Rule Lodge, No. 179, I. O. O. F. , of which he is Vice Grand and Secretary. He is also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America

Politically Mr. DEAN is a Republican and has held many of the local offices in his community, and is the present City Treasurer of Dunlap, and was Recorder for two term; he is also a member of the School Board.

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