Henry Clay Dean papers and research files compiled by Edgar R. Harlan, 1846-1911.

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Henry Clay Dean papers and research files compiled by Edgar R. Harlan, 1846-1911.

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This collection consists of papers generated by Dean as well as research files about Dean compiled by Edgar R.. Harlan. Papers by Dean include nine original letters (four of them written to George Wallace Jones between 1855 and 1868 and undated); typed transcripts of letters from Dean to Charles Mason, Gideon Bailey and Laurel Summers (1858-1880 and undated); a typed transcript of a scrapbook containing articles and editorials Dean submitted to various periodicals (1846-1850); and several miscellaneous documents including a transcript of his testimony in the murder case State of Iowa vs. Q.D. Whitman (Union County District Court, 1874) in which he presented an insanity defense of the accused. Research files compiled by Harlan include correspondence between Harlan and Charles C. Dean (son of Henry Clay Dean) and other individuals (1894-1911 and undated); reminiscences and profiles of Dean from various sources, including Judges Cyrenus Cole and Henry C. Caldwell (ca. 1904-1910); news clippings (1887-ca. 1910); and 2 folders of Harlan's research notes.

.25 linear ft. (1 container)

State Historical Society of Iowa, Library

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State Historical Society of Iowa, Library

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Methodist Episcopal Church. Iowa Conference

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Jones, George Wallace, 1804-1896

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George Wallace Jones (1804-1896), born in Vincennes, Indiana, was a prominent jurist and politician in the upper mid-west region of the United States. He graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky in 1825. After being admitted to the bar, Jones moved to Michigan Territory where he worked as a miner and storekeeper; served in the Black Hawk War; and was a judge of the county court. He served as congressman from Michigan (1835-1837) and as one of the state of Iowa's first U. S. ...

Dean, Henry Clay, 1822-1887.

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Henry Clay Dean was an itinerant Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) preacher, lawyer, lecturer and controversial critic of the Civil War and the Lincoln administration. Dean was born in Fayette County, Penn. and came to Iowa in 1850. The Iowa M.E. Conference successively stationed him in Keosauqua, Muscatine, Middletown, Bloomfield and Ottumwa. Supported by Iowa politicians James Harlan and George Wallace Jones, Dean was appointed to the post of Chaplain of the U.S. Senate for the years 1855-1856. Follo...

Harlan, Edgar Rubey, 1869-1941

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Lawyer, author and curator of the Iowa State Historical Department from 1908-1937. Harlan earned a law degree from Drake University (Des Moines) and was admitted to the bar in 1896. Prior to his appointment to the position of Historical Department curator he served as Van Buren County Attorney (1898-1902) and practiced with a firm in Keosauqua, Iowa (1902-1907). From the description of Edgar Rubey Harlan papers, 1887-1937. (State Historical Society of Iowa, Library). WorldCat record ...