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GEOEGIA AND GEORGIANS 3263-Henry W. and Jane (Adams) Dean. The Dean ancestry goes back toEngland, and some time before the Revolutionary war, two brothers of thename, Charles and John, emigrated about 1770 and found homes in thecolonies. Mr. Dean's grandfather was Dr. Alvin Dean, a physician by profession, but engaged chiefly as a large and prosperous planter. It is said thathe gathered fifty-seven crops from his plantation in Chattooga County, andin working his plantation employed some of the Cherokee Indians before thattribe was removed from Georgia. Doctor Dean and his wife, Julia AnnThompson, had a married life of more than sixty years, and they died inFloyd County when about eighty years of age. She was a daughter of ElijahC. Adams Thompson.Henry W. Dean, father of the Rome lawyer, before the war was a planterand the owner of many slaves. During the war he served as first lieutenantin a Georgia regiment and was taken prisoner at the fall of Vicksburg, andafter parole joined Joe Wheeler's Cavalry and served with the rank ofcaptain until the close of the war. He returned to find his property largelydissipated, but took up the struggle with courage and determination, arid intime rebuilt his resources and was an active planter until his death in 1896at the age of sixty-four. His first wife died in November, 1873, at the age ofthirty-eight, and he afterwards married Mrs. Anna B. Fleming, daughter ofSimpson B. Fleming of Spartansburg, South Carolina. Linton A. Dean wasthe oldest of his father's six children. His sister Mary Emma married RobertH. Towers, both of them now deceased, and their two living children areDoriigan Dean and Mary Dean Towers. Julia Frances Dean became thewife of George A. Shuford, they reside at Asheville, North Carolina, and theirtwo children are George A., Jr., and Mary Frances. Henry Alden Dean iswell known as a manufacturer of agricultural implements at Rome, and byhis marriage to Stella Corput has one child, Martha C. Frank Stark, alsoengaged in the manufacture of agricultural implements at Atlanta, marriedMabel Lewis, and their four children are Frank Stark, Lewis A., Henry W.and Mary Dean. Joseph Edward Dean, the junior partner of the firm ofDean & Dean, lawyers, was graduated from a state law college in 1893 and hassince been in practice with his older brother. His first wife was NellieSimpson, daughter of Capt, W. P. Simpson of Rome, and she left one son,Simpson Dean; his second marriage was to Miss Lillian Harmum of Marysville.Tennessee, and the four children of that marriage are Joel Edward.Charlotte, Margaret and an infant child yet unnamed.Linton Adams Dean grew up on the old homestead in Chattooga County,with part of his youth vexed by the turmoil of war, in spite of which he wasliberally educated, and in 1875 graduated A. B. from Mercer University,and in 1876 took his degree in law at the Columbian University at Washington, D. C. Returning to Rome, he took up active practice, and had severalpartners until 1894, since which date, for twenty-one years, his associatehas been his brother Joseph.Mr. Dean is a democrat, who has done much yeoman service for his party,and in 1886 was honored by election to the state senate. In 1907 he againrepresented his home district in the Legislature, and in that session his abilityas a lawyer and his tactful leadership impressed themselves upon muchimportant legislation. He was particularly influential in the legislation providing for the present convict lease system in Georgia, for the state railroadcommission, in the preparation of the state-wide prohibition bill, and otherlaws that date from that session. For the past twenty-five years Mr. Dean hasbeen a member of the board of trustees of Shorter Female College. Fraternally he is identified with the Masonic order. In the First Baptist Churchof Rome he is one of the leading members and has served as superintendentof its Sunday school.On October 29, 1878, at Rome, Mr. Dean married Miss Agnes S. Smith,