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EDWIN BLANCHARD DEAN
Born 21st July 1866 - Died 8th November 1948
A son of the Reverend Samuel Chase Dean, he was born in Satara, India, on 21st July 1866, and died on 8th November 1948. On 8th July 1896, in Beatrice, Nebraska, he married Georgia M, the daughter of George and Mary Jane DeCou, of Omaha, born in Western Union, Fayette County, Iowa, on 11th November 1867. He joined the first Congregational Church in Crete, Nebraska, in March 1882; he graduated from Doane College in 1888; he received his BA after a year's study at Amherst College, Massachussets, in 1889, and his BD after three years study from Chicago Theological Semenary in 1893. He and Georgia had children:
1 Beta DeCou, born 1st November 1900 in Clinton, Iowa.
2 Carol Chase, born 9th October in Clinton, Iowa.
Sources:
Major Lemuel Abijay Abbott, Descendants of George Abbott of Rowley, Mass., Volume 2, 1906.
Information supplied by Frank Dean.
Frank Dean's 'Dean Family' project on Rootsweb.