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coast survey service through various grades of
promotion, conducting determination of meridians of longitude between the American continent and Europe by astronomical observation,
assisted by the Atlantic cable. He represented
the coast survey department in 1869 at the
landing of the cable at Hearts Content, N.F., and
had charge of the party making up the government expedition to Zeres, Spain, in 1870, to
observe the eclipse of the sun. He left the service in 1885 while engaged in determining the
arc across the American continent that would
connect the coast surveys of the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts. He was made a fellow of the
American association for the advancement of science.
He died at Fall River, Mass., Jan. 23, 1897.
DEAN, Gilbert, jurist, was born in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess county, N.Y., Aug. 14, 1819. He was descended from the Deanes and Gilberts of Taunton, Mass., who settled in the town in 1637. He was prepared for college at Amenia seminary and was graduated at Yale in 1841. He studied law in Pine Plains, N.Y., and began the practice of his profession in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1844. He was a representative in the 32d and 33d congresses, resigning in June, 1854, to accept the position of justice of the New York supreme court by appointment of Governor Clark. He served for a time on the bench of the court of appeals and on the expiration of his term in 1856 he removed from Poughkeepsie to New York city, where he continued the practice of law. He died in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Oct. 12, 1870. DEAN, James, educator, was born in Windsor, Vt., Nov. 26, 1776. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1800 and taught school both before and after his graduation. He was tutor in the University of Vermont, 1807-09, and professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, 1809-14. He then went to Dartmouth university by invitation of President Wheelock as professor of natural philosophy and mathematics, and when the U.S. supreme court decided against the new institution and it ceased to exist in 1821, he returned to the University of Vermont, where he held the same chair, 1822-24. He received from the University of Vermont the honorary degree of A.M. in 1806 and that of LL.D. in 1847. He compiled a Gazetteer of Vermont (1808). He died in Burlington, Vt., Jan. 20, 1849.
DEAN, John S. W., clergyman, was born in Upshur county, Va., March 7, 1848; son of Marshall and Louisa (Kesling) Dean; grandson of John Dean and of James Kesling, and of English, Irish and German ancestry. He joined the Union army as a member of the 3d West Virginia cavalry in 1864 and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. He was graduated at the West Virginia university in 1874: was professor of Latin and history in the State college of Pennsylvania, 1874-79, and a member of the Central Pennsylvania conference from 1874. He took a post-graduate course at Boston university, 1879-82, and travelled and studied in Europe, 1882-83. He was elected a representative from Upshur county to the West Virginia legislature in 1884; was stationed at the Tabernacle M.E. church, Detroit, Mich., 1885; joined the Nebraska conference in 1886 and held various appointments. In 1899 he was stationed at Falls City, Neb. He was an early advocate of co-education and secured the opening of the West Virginia university to women. He also joined in the crusade against the saloons and in practical temperance work. He was a trustee of the Nebraska Wesleyan university. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Indiana Asbury university in 1877; the degree of S.T.B. and Ph.D. from Boston university in 1882. and that of D.D. from the University of West Virginia in 1894. He was married in June, 1886, to Grace Marple of Upshur county, West Virginia.
DEAN, John Ward, librarian, was born at Wiscasset. Maine, March 13, 1815; son of Charles and Patience (Kingsbury) Dean; grandson of John and Sarah (Bridges) Dean, and of John and Miriam (Place) Kingsbury; and a descendant of Thomas Deane, who was in Boston, Mass., as early An image should appear at this position in the text. as 1692. He was educated in Portland, Maine, and resided in that city until 1835. In 1839 he removed to Providence, R.I., and in 1843 became a resident of Boston, Mass. In 1862 he was ap pointed one of the editors of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, established in 1847, and edited the work from October, 1862, to October, 1863; from July, 1864, to October, 1864; and from January, 1875. He was recording secretary of the American statistical association, 1860-72. He was elected librarian of the New England historic, genealogical society in 1872, held the office until 1889, and was again elected librarian in June, 1892. In 1870 he was chosen president of the Prince society, of which he was one of the founders, serving until 1880, when he declined a re-election and was made first vice-president. In 1887 he edited for that society's publications the monograph on "Capt. John Mason, the Founder of New Hampshire," by Charles Wesley Tuttle, Ph.D. He edited the