Dr. Alexander Tracy Dean and Mary Adeline Crain

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Husband Dr. Alexander Tracy Dean ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 1788 - Huntingdon Co, PA 3 5
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           Died: 4 Nov 1834 or 1844 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 1 2 5
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   Other Spouse: Mary Smith (1792-1827) 3

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Wife Mary Adeline Crain ⁶

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           Born: 1 May 1817 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 6
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           Died: 3 Mar 1881 - Camden, Camden Co, NJ 1
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         Father: Col. Richard Moore Crain (1777-1852) 7 8 9
         Mother: Elizabeth Whitehill (1770/1771-1848) 7 8 9

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   Other Spouse: Dr. Joseph Junkin (      -      ) 6

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   Other Spouse: Isaac Van Horn (      -      ) 6

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Children

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1 F Jennie Dean ¹

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         Spouse: William S. Bishop, M.D. (      -1868) 1

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2 M Richard Crain Dean ¹

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           Born: 26 May 1836 1
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         Spouse: Anna Mulford (      -      ) 10
           Marr: 1858 10

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Alexander Tracy Dean

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He located in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, in 1815, after the close of the war, in which he had taken an active part as a volunteer. He was a member of a company that was formed in the neighborhood of Mercersburg, and proceeded to Buffalo, in 1812. Previous to his removal to Chambersburg he had resided for a short time in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, his native county.
In 1816 he formed a partnership with Dr. Watkins, which, however, was not long continued. In 1824 he and Dr. N. B. Lane formed an association, which continued until 1826, and was dissolved by the contemplated removal of Dr. Dean to Harrisburg, which event occurred in 1828. Dr. Dean was a gentleman of very superior intellect, and possessed varied and extensive acquirements. In medical lore, especially, he was thoroughly skilled. Although possessing a great fondness for the literature of his profession, his mind was, perhaps, rather too metaphysical and speculative for the dry details and unbending facts of medicine. He was a fluent and graceful speaker, and an elegant and accomplished writer. Having suffered from severe attacks of rheumatism, as well as from occasional hemorrhages from the lungs, he was, to a considerable degree, unfitted for encountering the arduous duties pertaining to the practice of medicine. Dr. Dean practiced in Harrisburg from his removal from Chambersburg, in 1828, until the autumn of 1834, when his life was destroyed by cholera. Dr. Dean was forty-six years old when so suddenly called away, and he died much lamented by a large circle of admiring friends, to whom his many estimable qualities, of both head and heart, had greatly endeared him. [HFC 1887, 279]

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 154.

2 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 279.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 94.

4 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 464.

5 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 467.

6 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 151.

7 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 477.

8 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 149.

9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 52.

10 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 155.