Norfolk County MA Archives Biographies.....Deans, Esq., Charles Henry May 2, 1832 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ma/mafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 12, 2006, 3:48 pm Author: E O Jameson CHARLES HENRY DEANS, son of Samuel and Hannah Le Baron (Wheaton) Deans, was born May 2, 1832, in Easton, Mass. He pursued a course of classical study in the academy in New Hampton, N. H., for four years, and entered, in 1854, the Sophomore class of Brown University, Providence, R. I. At the close of his Junior year his health failed, and he was obliged, to leave college without graduating. His class graduated in 1857. Subsequent to leaving college he studied law with Samuel B. Noyes, Esq., and Ellis Ames, Esq., of Canton, Mass., and was admitted in 1858 to the Bar of Bristol County. He immediately opened an office in West Medway, where he has continued in the practice of his profession to the present time. Mr. Deans held the office of Trial Justice for twenty-one years. He has served on the school board for eighteen years, and is still a member. He was a Trustee of the Medway Savings Bank, and for fourteen years the President of the New England Awl Company. He was also the President of the Evergreen Cemetery Association. Additional Comments: THE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT PERSONS, AND The Genealogical Records OF MANY EARLY AND OTHER FAMILIES IN MEDWAY, MASS. 1713-1886. Illustrated WITH NUMEROUS STEEL AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS. BY E. O. JAMESON, THE AUTHOR OK "THE COGSWELLS IN AMERICA," "THE HISTORY OF MEDWAY, MASS.." ETC. MILLIS, MASS. 1886. Copyright, 1886. E. O. JAMESON, MILLIS, MASS. All Rights Reserved. J. A. & R. A. REID, PRINTERS, PROVIDENCE, R. I. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ma/norfolk/bios/deansesq56gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb