Duval County FlArchives Biographies.....Dean, Russell H. December 21, 1854 - September 28, 1918
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Source: The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol. II   pg. 102-3  1923
Author: The History of Florida:  Past & Present

DEAN, M.D., RUSSELL H.  During the heyday of life, when a man is achieving 
beyond his associates and winning favor and applause, public honors and 
private admiration, his compelling personality may have much influence, but 
after he has passed off the scene of his endeavors and his deeds, his 
triumphs, his failures and his successes are visioned with the cold and 
unbiased criticism that posterity accords even its highest and greatest, his 
true character stands out and his measure of usefulness to mankind is truly 
revealed.  The student of biography and history knows full well how often this 
acid test brings only disappointment.  When, then, a community can point 
proudly to a man of true nobility from the ranks of his daily life, how 
valuable is the story and how far reasoning may be its influence.
To the memory of such a man too much special and deserved esteem very seldom 
can be shown.  When the test above referred to is applied to the record of Dr. 
RUSSELL H. DEAN, for many years one of the leading physicians of Jacksonville, 
it is found that he measured up to the highest standards as a professional man 
and a citizen, and in his death the city sustained an immutable loss.
	Doctor DEAN was born in Marshall County, Mississippi, December 21, 
1854, a son of Col. RUSSELL DEAN, who was born in Tennessee, but became a 
prominent man and leading planter of Marshall County, Mississippi, where he 
took an active part in politics, serving in the Mississippi State Assembly.  
Marshall County was his home when war was declared between the two sections of 
the country, and he, espousing the cause of the Confederacy, served with honor 
as brevet-colonel in its army.  His son, Maj. ROBERT A. DEAN, of Lafayette 
County, Mississippi was in the same service as major of the Nineteenth 
Mississippi Infantry.
	Doctor DEAN grew to manhood on his father's plantation, and received 
his educational training at the University of Mississippi.  He took his 
professional training in the medical department of Tulane University of 
Louisiana, at New Orleans, from which he was graduated in 1875.  Immediately 
thereafter he entered upon the practice of his profession in his home 
community in Marshall County.  There he remained with gratifying success until 
in April, 1893, when he came to Jacksonville, Florida, and here he maintained 
a general practice until death claimed him.  He kept in close touch with the 
advance made in his profession by postgraduate work in New York City.  Gaining 
a wide reputation for his skill, accuracy and ability, he was accorded the 
position in his profession to which he was entitled, he was an honored member 
of the various medical societies.  At one time he was vice president of the 
Florida State Medical Society, and also served as president and secretary of 
the Duval Medical Society.  Doctor DEAN was a man who contributed lavishly of 
his time and skill, and served as a member of the District Board of Medical 
Examiners, and for ten years was local surgeon of the Florida Southern 
Railroad, and also of the Plant system.
	On May 14, 1844, Doctor DEAN married Miss MARY GRAY MYERS, of New 
Hamburgh, Dutchess County, New York.  They became the parents of five 
children, namely: LLOYD, MARIAN, RUSSELL H., Junior, HELEN, LESLIE and FRANCIS 
MYERS.  Doctor DEAN was a Royal Arch and Knights Templar Mason, and he 
belonged to the Mystic Shrine, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Knights 
of Pythias.  Long deeply interested in religious matters, he became one of the 
leading members of the Presbyterian Church, and served the local congregation 
as an elder.  The death of this excellent man occurred September 28, 1918 and 
thousands mourned his loss.  In his life were the elements of greatness 
because of the use he made of his talents and opportunities, and because his 
thoughts were not self-centered, but were given to the mastery of life's 
problems and the fulfillment of his duty as a man in his relations to his 
associates, and a citizen in relation to his country.  What a magnificent 
legacy such a man leaves to the generation that shall come after him, for he 
won the victory and erected for himself a monument more enduring than the 
granite hills.  His name is associated with some of the most beneficent 
charities of the city, although much of the good he did was never known to the 
public, and he never refused to respond to a call upon his services as a 
physician.


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