Lewis H. Dean

Type	Value
Name	Lewis H. Dean
Born
Gender	M
Died
Buried

Type	Value
Father	Joseph Dean b. (1804-12-30, Kentucky) d. (1883-09-12)
Mother	Hannah Boggs b. (1809-02-25, Gallia County, Ohio) d. (1888-03-07)
Married	1826-11-06, Green County, Ohio

Type	Value
Family	Panetta Haines b. (Green County, Ohio)
Married	1861-11-05
Children

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A Biographical and Genealogical History of Southeastern Nebraska - Volume 1 - 1904 Transcribed and Contributed by: Sandra Davis

Lewis H. Dean, who is one of the old settlers of Pawnee county, Nebraska, coming to Clay township in 1878, is a highly respected citizen and an honored survivor of the Civil war. He was born March 5, 1838, at Xenia, Ohio, and is a son of Joseph Dean, who was born in Kentucky, in 1804, and a grandson of Daniel Dean, who was born in county Down, Ireland. The family was established in Kentucky shortly after the settlement of Daniel Boone.

Joseph Dean crossed the river into Ohio, in young manhood, and there married Hannah Boggs, who was born in Gallia county, Ohio, a daughter of Samuel Boggs, who later moved to northwestern Indiana. Joseph Dean and wife took up a homestead farm in Ohio and lived there all their lives engaged in farming, both passing away when about eighty years old. Mr. Joseph Dean was a Whig in politics. The Dean family was Presbyterian in religious belief, while the Boggs’s were Methodists. These parents had children born to them as follows: George Washington died in Ohio; Mrs. Julia A. Struthers died at Monmouth, Illinois; Daniel, of Cedarville, Ohio; Louise and Willis both died young; Lewis H.; Anna Oldham lives in Xenia; Joseph N., of Xenia, was a member of Company B, Fortieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and for years after the war served as probate judge; Mrs. Mary C. Wright lives in Dayton, Ohio; Samuel S. is a prominent man in Green county and lives on the old homestead; and Eliza J., wife of Rev. Renwick, died in Henderson County, Illinois.

Lewis H. Dean grew up in Ohio and attended the district schools. On April 16, 1861, he enlisted in defense of his country’s flag just four days after Fort Sumter had been fired upon, entering the Twelfth Ohio Infantry for ninety days. His second enlistment was on August 12, 1862, with Company H, Ninety-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and his faithful service continued until the close of the war. He served under Generals Rosecrans and Thomas and took part in many of the leading battles of the war, among these being Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and Bentonville, later going with Sherman to the sea; marching through the Carolinas and triumphantly to the grand review at Washington city. Mr. Dean came out of the service unharmed and had never been incapacitated for duty. He has a record of which he may justly be proud.

On November 5, 1861, Mr. Dean was married to Miss Panetta Haines, who was born in Greene county, Ohio, and is a daughter of Samuel P. and Rebecca (McFarland) Haines, an old Tennessee family, and a brother of Alfred A. Haines, who was a soldier in the Eighth Ohio Cavalry and now lives in Texas. In 1867 Mr. Dean removed to Clay county, Illinois, but in 1878 came to Pawnee county, Nebraska. He secured a farm of two hundred and forty acres, but this he sold in 1901. He went to California in 1893 and spent eighteen months there. Mrs. Dean died May 26, 1895, aged fifty-seven years. She was the beloved mother of these children; Mrs. Lula M. Albro died at Pasadena, California; Mrs. Florence McCall, of Washington, Kansas; Lida Gertrude died at the age of eleven years, at White Hall, Illinois, on the journey to Nebraska; Rena is Mrs. Frankenfield of Pawnee city; Mrs. Cora Lobaugh, of Washington, Kansas; Willis is a successful physician of Sioux City, Iowa; Clara E. is the wife of Dr. A. P. Fitzsimmons, of Tecumseh, Nebraska; Frank A. is a dentist at Colville, Washington; Joseph Calvin, a bright young man, was accidentally killed in 1890.

On October 28, 1896, Mr. Dean married Mrs. Harriet A. Stephenson, who is a daughter of William and Senath (Powers) Farrow, of Axtell, Kansas. She had two brothers in the Civil war, Gideon, a member of an Iowa regiment, and William, a member of an Illinois regiment.

Mr. and Mrs. Dean have a home in Pawnee city and own two valuable farms in Washington county, Kansas, and one of one hundred and ninety-six acres near Emmons. In politics Mr. Dean is a Prohibitionist and he belongs to the John Ingham Post No. 95, Grand Army of the Republic. They have several articles of great historic values in their home, one a table one hundred and ninety-three years old, and a goldsmith’s mortar formerly used to crush gold.