Dean family papers 1851-1981 (bulk 1900-1979)

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Title: Dean family papers 1851-1981 (bulk 1900-1979)
Date: 1851-1981
Call Number: BHS 352
Contents: 16 boxes (260 folders).
Description: This collection contains papers created and collected by members of the Dean family from 1851 to 1981.
Summary: It includes family history and papers of Albert Dean (box 1), papers of Calvin and Elizabeth Dean (box 2), notebooks (box 3), legal papers (box 4), school papers and social and financial correspondence of sisters Martha "Mattie" and Marguerite Dean (boxes 5-8, 10-14), and records of the Phi Delta Delta legal fraternity (box 9), secret societies (box 15) and the D.A.R. (box 16).
History: Calvin Dean was a rancher who raised prize bulls in Kansas and Oklahoma. He moved with his family to Boulder, Colorado in 1909-1910. The family home was at 945 University Ave., Boulder, Colorado. Calvin and his wife Elizabeth Armstrong Dean had two daughters, Marguerite and Martha (called Mattie), who never married.
Mattie Dean graduated State Preparatory School (Boulder, Colo.) in 1912 and became a pharmacist. Marguerite Dean graduated the University of Colorado with a B.A. in 1912, an M.A. in 1914, and a law degree in 1924. Between 1912 and 1924 she taught school in Nebraska and Sunshine, Colorado. Neither sister married and both lived at the family home until their deaths.
Terms of Use: RIGHTS: The historic photographs and documents, with the Source BHS, belong to the Boulder Historical Society/Museum of Boulder and require attribution when used. These items are on permanent loan to the Carnegie Library for Local History. No duplicated materials may be deposited, or placed on file in any other archive, museum, library or similar repository. Questions of copyright are the responsibility of the user.
Format: Correspondence.
Clippings.
Documents.
Author: Dean family.
Donor: Dean, Martha E. 1893-1981
Subjects: Dean, Marguerite, 1891-1978
Dean, Elizabeth Armstrong, 1860-1924
Dean, Calvin, 1851-1933
Dean, Albert, 1840-1913
Dean, Martha E, 1893-1981
Dean family
Daughters of the American Revolution., Arapahoe Chapter (Boulder, Colo.)--Records and correspondence--1910-1980
Knights Templar (Masonic order)., Columbia Lodge No. 14 (Boulder, Colo.)--Records and correspondence
Order of the Eastern Star., Queen Esther Chapter No. 5 (Boulder, Colo.)--Records and correspondence
Order of the White Shrine of Jerusalem., Mizpah Shrine No. 4 of Colorado (Boulder, Colo.)--Records and correspondence--1927-1978
Phi Delta Delta., Phi Chapter ( Boulder, Colo.)--Records and correspondence
Freemasons--History
Christmas cards
Women--Colorado--Boulder--Societies and clubs
Real property--Kansas
Real property--Colorado--Boulder County
Women lawyers--Colorado--Boulder
Clubs--Colorado--Boulder
Boulder (Colo.)--Social life and customs
Acquisition Note: Donor: Martha E. Dean 945 University Ave., Boulder, CO. Gift 1981
Note: This collection is on permanent loan from the Boulder Historical Society.

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: Dean family history: biographical notes [1860]-1959

Call Number 352-1-1

Date [1860]-1959

Contents 1 folder.

Description This folder contains handwritten and typewritten notes on the ancestors and genealogy of the Dean family of Boulder, Colo., compiled by various family members. The notes cover a period from 1766 to 1959.

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: Personal calling cards [1860-1959]

Call Number 352-1-2

Date [1860-1959]

Contents 44 items.

Description This folder contains printed and handwritten calling cards collected by members of the Dean family of Boulder, Colo.

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: Dean family correspondence 1851-1947

Call Number 352-1-3

Date 1851-1947

Contents 13 items.

Description This folder contains a 1918 Christmas card sent to Carolina Dean, an 1899 valentine to Estella Dean from her aunt Maggie Teasdall, a hand delivered letter to John Dean from his father Robert Dean in 1851, nine letters to Margaret Dean 1857-1947 (two of them from her father), and a letter from Elizabeth Dean Hardie to her cousin Myrtle, which was found among the papers of Albert Dean.

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: Civil war papers 1863-1912 (bulk 1863-1864)

Call Number 352-1-4

Date 1863-1912

Contents 12 items.

Description This folder contains documents pertaining to the Civil War.

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: Incoming correspondence: A-E 1888-1913

Call Number 352-1-5

Date 1888-1913

Contents 15 items.

Description This folder contains Albert Dean's incoming correspondence from persons with surnames starting in A through E.

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: Incoming correspondence: F-Z 1882-1901

Call Number 352-1-6

Date 1882-1901

Contents 15 items.

Description This folder contains Albert Dean's incoming correspondence from persons with surnames starting in F through Z.

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: Civil war era social invitations 1864-1865

Call Number 352-1-7

Date 1864-1865

Contents 8 items.

Description This folder contains Albert Dean's collection of invitations and tickets to social events in Vicksburg, Miss., during the Civil War.

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: Tickets, invitations and calling cards 1866-1912

Call Number 352-1-8

Date 1866-1912

Contents 17 items.

Description This folder contains Albert Dean's collection of social cards, including a seating card, a complimentary ticket to Searle's Fantastic Illusions, member's tickets to the Chicago Board of Trade, an invitation to a Mystic Knights of Bovinia ball, visitors' calling cards, and Albert Dean's business cards.

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: Albert Dean outgoing correspondence 1862 June 8

Call Number 352-1-9

Date 1862

Contents 2 items.

Description This folder contains a letter that Albert Dean wrote to his sister Martha Dean, describing a Civil War river battle at Memphis, Tenn., in 1862.

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: Mattie Metcalf death certification and doctor's bill 1884 Nov. 4

Call Number 352-1-10

Date 1884

Contents 4 items.

Description This folder contains a handwritten certification of the death of Mattie Ethel Metcalf, age 2 years and 1 month, in Gibbon, Neb., of acute sporadic dysentery, signed by L. B. Hill, M.D., and the doctor's bill and receipt for Albert Dean's payment of $10 of the $30 total bill for fifteen days' attendance. Both are dated 4 Nov. 1884.

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: Personal financial papers 1861-1911

Call Number 352-1-11

Date 1861-1911

Contents 22 items.

Description This folder contains promissory notes to Albert Dean from various parties in Arkansas City and Bitter Creek, Kansas; property tax receipts for Greene County, Ohio, and Sumner County, Kansas; a personal check by Albert Dean; business receipts; and a one yhear account record with Broderick and Waters Ranch.

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: Real estate records 1873-1886

Call Number 352-1-12

Date 1873-1886

Contents 8 items.

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