Sutter-Yuba County CA Archives Biographies.....Dean, Thomas 1831 - 1905
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Author: Peter J. Delay

    CAPT. THOMAS DEAN.— Born in Virginia, December 17. 1831, Capt. Thomas Dean
spent most of his boyhood days on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. In 1849 he
crossed the plains with an ox team, being four months on the road, and located
in the mining towns of Hangtown and Drytown. In the fall of 1850 he came to
Marysville and conducted a livery stable for a while, later moving to Sutter
County and locating at the place now owned by his son, Edward Dean, where he
engaged in the dairy business. He served as lieutenant in the 1st California
Cavalry, at first known as the Butte Mountain Rangers, during the Civil War, and
also served as captain of the Home Guards of Sutter County; and ever after that
he was known as Captain Dean. He was a prominent member of the Grand Army of the
Republic, and also of the Pioneer Society. Captain Dean was the leader of the
company organized in Sutter County during the Civil War, and led his company in
the memorable climb up South Butte, upon whose summit they planted an immense
flag-pole, a part of which is still in existence. An account of the planting of
this flagstaff, and of the accompanying flag-raising, is given in the sketch of
his son-in-law, E. A. Noyes, which will be found elsewhere in this volume. 

    Thomas Dean was married in 1853 to Miss Hannah Hyndman, of Jefferson County,
Ohio. Nine children resulted from this fortunate union, namely: Isabella, the
wife of E. A. Noyes; Ella, now Mrs. J. K. Prime, who lives retired at Sites, in
Colusa County; Ann, the wife of J. D. Stewart, a farmer near Live Oak; Thomas,
who became a farmer at Sutter and who died at the age of fifty-four, leaving a
widow and two sons, Ray and Earl; Mary, who died unmarried at about twenty-two
years of age; Lizzie, who is now the widow of F. W. Strang, and resides in
Oakland; Edward, whose biography also appears elsewhere in this work; Laura, who
died at the age of fourteen, in 1884; and Gertrude, the baby, who died in 1878,
being then three years of age. 

    Captain Dean was a strong abolitionist and Republican, and was a great
admirer of Lincoln; and although a Virginian, he was a stanch supporter of the
Emancipation Proclamation. Ardently patriotic, and an excellent horseman, he
always kept young saddle-horses in training for cavalry service, and even in the
last years of his life was ever ready to join the cavalry, should his country
again need his services. He died at his home farm at Sutter, July 9, 1905, being
then past seventy-three years old. He was survived by his wife, who passed away
in 1915 at the age of eighty-four. Their names occupy a worthy place in the
annals of the pioneer history of Sutter County. 


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HISTORY OF YUBA and SUTTER COUNTIES 
CALIFORNIA 
WITH 
Biographical Sketches OF 
The Leading Men and Women of the Counties Who Have Been Identified with Their
Growth and Development from the Early Days to the Present 

HISTORY BY 
PETER J. DELAY 

ILLUSTRATED 
COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME 

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY 
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1924


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