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Pocahontas County >> 1904 Index The Pioneer History of Pocahontas County,
Iowa D Unless otherwise noted, biographies submitted by Dick Barton. DEAN, THOMAS L. (1841), a pioneer of Lincoln , is a native of Ohio . In 1870, with wife and three children he located on a soldier's homestead of 160 acres, the se 1/4 sec. 34, Lincoln township, this county. He assisted in the organization of that township, was elected the first justice, and served twenty-eight consecutive years, 1873 to 1900. He served as president of the school board two years, clerk four years, and treasurer six years. He also served as sheriff of Pocahontas county two years, 1878-79. Aug. 8, 1862 , he enlisted as a member of Co. D. 98th Ohio Infantry and served until the close of the war. He has made a splendid record as a soldier and citizen. He improved his farm with good buildings and occupied it until 1900, when he moved to Pocahontas. His family consisted of ten children of whom the first born died in childhood. Ellen M., a native of Mercer county, Ill. , in 1884, married William D. Pattee and died at 33, in 1899, at Pocahontas, leaving four children, Mary, George, Minnie and Nellie. Mary E. in 1889, married George E. Hawk, a farmer, lives in Minnesota , and has two children, Arthur and Frank. Minnie E. in 1887, married Charles E. Andrews. They own and occupy a farm of 160 acres in Lincoln township and have four children, Lewis, Roy, Mabel, and Lloyd. Martha A. in 1900, married Edward Challberge, a farmer, and together with her brother, George T., continues to live on her father's farm in Lincoln township. James E., a carpenter, lives at Palmer. Frank in 1902, married Josephine Flaherty and lives at Pocahontas. John, the youngest, lives at Pocahontas. |