ALBERT A . DEAN, Grant, Catahoula, and Rapides Parishes, Louisiana Submitted to USGENWEB by: Kay Thompson-Brown Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** ALBERT A . DEAN Albert A. Dean, merchant, Fairmount, La. Among the many enterprises of a town or parish that of merchandising takes a prominent place, dealing as they do in al the necessaries of life. Among those prominently engaged in this occupation is Mr. Dean, who is one of the substantial men of the parish. He was originally from Panola County, Miss., born June 21, 1854, and was one of eight children, six now living, born to Allen B. C. and Dorcas Jane (Alexander Dean, natives of Georgia and Alabama, respectively. The parents were married in Alabama, resided there for a short time, and then moved to Mississippi, where they made their home until 1854. They then removed to Louisiana, settled in Catahoula Parish, and from there they moved to Rapides Parish, in December, 1866. In 1885 they came to Grant Parish. The father has followed farming all his life, an has been moderately successful. He was a soldier in the Florida War, and helped get the Indians removed to the reservation, west of the Mississippi River. He is a strong Democrat in his political principles. He is now seventy four years of age, and his wife is sixty eight, and both are enjoying comparatively good health. The Dean family is of English descent. Their children are named in order of their births as follows: Mary R., Eliza J., Franklin B. (a farmer of this parish), and Burkett (also of this parish). Albert A. received his education in Catahoula and Rapides Parishes, and when nineteen years of age he turned his attention to mercantile pursuits. This business he continued in Colfax, La., from 1874 to 1880, when he moved to Fairmount, where he has since been carrying on the same, but is also extensively engaged in planting. He is the owner of a half section of land, near Colfax, and has about 213 acres under cultivation. He commenced working for himself with limited means, but has been successful, and is considered one of the yong, but rising merchants and planters. In 1876 he selected Miss Clara R. Price, daughter of R. Price, of Rapides Parish, an to this marriage have been born seven children: Hattie E., George H., Albert M., Leonadas b., Ollie L., Garland, and an infant unnamed. Mr. and Mrs. Dean are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and are influential members of the same. Mr. Dean is one of the trustees of Alexander High School, which is under the auspices of the above mentioned church. In politics Mr. Dean is a Democrat.