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Fred M. Dean, M.D.

Dr. Fred M. Dean, who since the spring of 1902 has successfully engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery at Jefferson, was born at Mount Vernon, Ohio, in 1867. His father, George Dean, was a native of Orange county, New York, and died in October, 1901, in his sixty-eighth year. He was descended from English ancestry. His great-great-grandfather, Joshua Dean, enlisted for service in the Revolutionary war from Connecticut and Dr. Dean of this review has in his possession the powder horn that was carried by his Revolutionary ancestor during his service in the Continental army.

George B. Dean was a farmer by occupation and was also engaged in the hardware business in Dakota and afterward in Jefferson Iowa. He located in the latter place in 1870 and became the owner of a farm in Bristol township. He also established a shoe business in Jefferson and subsequently was engaged in the conduct of a hardware store for a number of years. He was a very successful man in his undertakings, possessing strong purpose, laudable ambition and indomitable industry. He held membership in the Presbyterian church, in which he served as an oflicer, and he was held in high esteem by neighbors and friends. He belonged to the local lodge of Odd Fellows and was a staunch republican in his political views. In his convictions he was pronounced and at all times was regarded as an upright honorable man. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Augusta Victoria Helena Marquand, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, and is now living in Jefferson at the age of sixty-six years. She is of French lineage and is a member of the Presbyterian church.

Dr. Dean, the only child of the family, was a student in Jefferson Academy in his youth and having determined upon the practice of medicine as a life work, in 1888 he entered the Iowa State University at Iowa City, where he spent one year as a medical student. He next entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Chicago, Illinois, in 1889, and was graduated therefrom in the spring of 1892 on the completion of the regular course. He afterward continued his studies in the Post Graduate College of Chicago and also in other institutions, and in the spring of 1902 he began practice at Jefferson, where he has since met with growing success. He makes a specialty of diseases of the eye and ear and in that department of the medical science has given proof of superior skill and ability. Aside from his practice he is a stockholder and director in the Greene County Telephone Company.

In 1896 Dr. Dean was married to Miss Daisy Florence Head, who was born in Jefferson in 1868 and is a daughter of Mahlon and Mary Head. She belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church and is an estimable lady. Dr. Dean gives his political allegiance to the republican party and has served as coroner of Greene county for several years. He is recogized as one of the local leaders in republican ranks and is interested in matters of citizenship to the extent of giving hearty cooperation to every movement for the public good. He belongs to the American and the State Medical Associations and is president of the Greene County Medical Society, a fact which indicates his standing with the profession. The consensus of public opinion concerning his ability is altogether favorable and he has therefore been accorded a very liberal patronage.

Transcribed from "Past and Present of Greene County, Iowa Together With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Prominent and Leading Citizens and Illustrious Dead,"
by E. B. Stillman assisted by an Advisory Board consisting of Paul E. Stillman, Gillum S. Toliver,
Benjamin F. Osborn, Mahlon Head, P. A. Smith and Lee B. Kinsey, Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1907.

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