Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Dean, Aubrey R. November 12, 1876 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter

AUBREY R. DEAN.

    Among the business men of Blue Rapids, of prominence and influence, is
Aubrey R. Dean, a miller and now mayor of the city, who was born in Blackstone,
Illinois, on November 12, 1876, and is the son of George and Martha (Hamilton)
Dean.

    George and Martha (Hamilton) Dean were natives of the states of New York and
Indiana, respectively. The father was born on August 14, 1850, and there
received the greater part of his education in the public schools. He later came
to Illinois, where he lived for some years and there married. The family came to
Kansas and, since 1880, the father has been actively engaged in general farming
and stock raising, and is now living in Blue Rapids City township. His wife,
Martha Dean, died in 1890 at the age of thirty-six years. She was the mother of
two children, Ira, of Rock Springs, Wyoming, where he is manage rof the Standard
Oil Company's business at that place, and Aubrey R. Some years after the death
of his wife, Mr. Dean was married to Etta Hamilton, but no kin of the first Mrs.
Dean.

    Aubrey R. Dean was reared on the home farm and received his education in the
public schools of Blue Rapids and graduated from the high school with the class
of 1896. After completing his education he traveled from 1896 to 1905 in the
interests of the International Harvester Company, as a member of their sales
force. During a part of that time he was off the road and operated a hardware
and implement store at Blue Rapids in 1903, and owned several stores in various
sections of the state. He was also a large landowner in Marshall county, and was
one of the organizers of the second American plaster plant at Blue Rapids. In
1914 he disposed of most of his original interest and started with the milling
industry at Blue Rapids. He is the president and one of the four men who own and
operate the Flour and Elevator Company of that city. He has met with much
success and is regarded as one of the substantial men of the town.

    Politically, Mr. Dean is a member of the Republican party, and is a man of
much force and character. He served two years on the city council, when he was
elected mayor in April, 1915, a position which he now occupies. He is giving the
residents of the place a clean and business-like administration. Starting life
for himself as a mere boy, without funds and without influence, he came to
realize, early in life, the advantage of a hustling and progressive spirit. He
feels that the same policy applies to corporations and civic governments as
well. By applying his individual methods in the government of his home city, he
hopes to make the city better. He believes in substantial public
improvements—those that will benefit the greater number of people. He is opposed
to class legislation, and only those improvements that are of benefit to the
whole people receive his approval. Good streets, good schools and the
suppression of those enterprises that have an evil influence on the moral
standard of the community, engage his hearty co-operation and support. Today,
the city is recognized as one of the progressive residential cities of this part
of the state, and the schools are regarded as being of the best class.

    On January 22, 1901, Aubrey R. Dean was united in marriage to Blanche Drake,
who was born at Dumont, Colorado, on December 25, 1880, and is the daughter of
Joseph E. and Mary (Chinn) Drake. Her parents came to Blue Rapids when she was
but a child, and here the father was mining foreman for the United States Gypsum
Company for a good many years. His wife died on February 20, 1916, and he is now
living in Arizona.

    To Mr. and Mrs. Dean have been born the following children: George, Ruth,
Dorris and Rollin, whose ages are, respectively, thirteen, nine, seven and two
years. Mr. and Mrs. Dean are prominent in the activities of the city and are
held in the highest regard. Mr. Dean is a member of the Masonic blue lodge, a
Knight Templar and a Shriner, also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)



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