OBIT: John DEAN, 1905, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich
<millich84@hotmail.com>

Copyright 2009.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/
_________________________________________ 

The Hon. John Dean, Who Died Thursday Evening in Hollidaysburg 

  The Hon. John Dean, a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 
died at his home in Hollidaysburg at 7:30 o'clock Thursday evening from 
pneumonia and other complications.
  Three weeks ago Mr. Dean suffered a slight stroke of paralysis from 
which time his illness dated.
  Judge Dean was born in Williamsburg, Blair County, Feb. 15, 1835.   
In 1892 he was elected to the supreme bench on the Republican ticket, 
after having served as judge of the twenty-fourth judicial district, 
including Blair, Huntingdon and Cambria counties, having been elected 
in 1871.  Prior to this he served as district attorney in Blair county, 
having been appointed to the office in 1867.  The distinguished 
gentleman had many personal friends among the members of the Cambria 
county bar.

Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa., Volume 39, Number 20, Friday, May 26, 
1905