Lincoln County, SD Biographies.....Dean, Edgar 1851 - 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

HON. EDGAR DEAN, secretary and manager of the Farmers' Lumber company, of
Canton, is the subject of this sketch. No man stands higher in the regard of his
fellow-citizens than Mr. Dean, who is in every way worthy of the estimation in
which he is held. In his career as a farmer, public officer and merchant, he has
displayed an excellent capacity for business, possessing sound judgment,
forethought and wise calculation, which have brought him to the front rank among
the most prosperous members of the township. He has been influential in public
affairs, taking an intelligent interest in all that concerned his locality, and
his public-spirit has helped forward many plans devised for its advancement.
Especially is this true in regard to education, as he has been one of the most
prominent members of the school board for four years, and is now treasurer of
the Canton board of education.

   Mr. Dean is still in the prime of life, having been born May 26, 1851, in
Sullivan county, N. Y., where he continued to live until he attained the age of
eight years. His parents then removed to Ulster county of the same state, and
there our subject spent eight years more of his boyhood. Edgar was sixteen years
old then, and in De Kalb county, Ill., where his parents then located, he grew
to maturity. His education was acquired in the common schools in the districts
wherein he resided, and in the graded schools of Sycamore, Ill. In May, 1874, he
came to Lincoln county, Dak. Ter., and engaged in farming for himself, in Norway
township, where he took up a claim of 160 acres as a homestead, and an
eighty-acre timber claim. His farm he improved and brought to a high state of
cultivation, making it his home until 1887, when he was elected to the
responsible position of treasurer of Lincoln county, and in order to give his
entire time and attention to the discharge of the duties of that office, he
removed to Canton. He served in that capacity for four years, having also, prior
to his election to the position, been a member of the board of county
commissioners four years. After spending two years on his farm, he then
established himself in the lumber business in Canton, and has since continued to
conduct a thriving and successful enterprise. Many of the more important offices
of Norway township Mr. Dean held while a resident within its borders, and in the
fall of 1891 he was elected to the state senate, in which capacity he served one
term; in fact, in all affairs of a public nature Mr. Dean is an active
participant, and is looked upon as a well-informed and prominent citizen of the
county. He also owns 320 acres of land situated in Norway and Pleasant
townships, which he conducts in connection with his lumber interests in Canton.

    July 12, 1871, the rites of wedlock were celebrated between Edgar Dean and
Miss Lavina Parker, the latter a native of Perry county, Ind. This lady is a
woman of much intelligence, who looks carefully after the family interests in
the management of household affairs, is social and hospitable, and sympathizes
in the good works promulgated in the community. Six children have been born to
Mr. and Mrs. Dean, on whom have been bestowed the following names: Ralph,
George, Effie, Edna, Ella and Edgar M. He is socially affiliated with the
Masonic fraternity, I. O. O. F., and also belongs to the chapter. His personal
character is such as to win universal esteem, and his business career promises
fine results.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF 
Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties,
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and
Representative Citizens, with a Review of their Life Work; their Identity with
the Growth and Development of these Counties; Reminiscences of Personal History
and Pioneer Life; and other Interesting and Valuable Matter which should be
Preserved in History.

ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO.
GEO. A. OGLE & CO.
Publishers, Engravers and Book Manufacturers.
1897.


Biography is the only true history.—EMERSON.

A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
generations.—MACAULAY.


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