HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes, Lewis
Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, 
Vol. III, pp. 1268-69-70.  [Carroll County]

CHATZ M. DEAN--In the various counties of Kentucky are to be found many of
the native sons of these respective sections who have found within their
borders ample scope for effective effort along business and professional
lines and who have achieved success worthy of the name.  Such an one is Mr.
Dean, who is recognized as one of the representative business men of his
native county and who is successfully identified with the tobacco trade at
Worthville, one of the thriving and attractive towns of Carroll county.
     Chatz Miller Dean was born on the old homestead farm near the village
in which he now resides, and the date of his nativity was July 10, 1861.
He is a son of Chatz T. and Permelia (Tucker) Dean, the former of whom
was born in Harrison county and the latter in Bourbon county, this state,
and both of whom were representatives of old and honored families of the
Blue Grass commonwealth.  William P. Dean, grandfather of him whose name
initiates this sketch, was a native of Pennsylvania, where the family, of
English origin, was founded in the Colonial era.  He was reared and
educated in his native state, whence he emigrated to Kentucky in the latter
part of the eighteenth or early in the nineteenth century.  He secured a
large tract of land in Harrison county, but a few years later he removed
to Carroll county where he secured land in the vicinity of the present town
of Worthville.  He became one of the pioneers of this section of the state
and contributed his quota to its civic and industrial development and
upbuilding.  The old homestead is still in the possession of his
descendants, and on this place he continued to reside until his death,
when about seventy years of age.  His name merits an enduring place on the
roster of the worthy and honored pioneers of Carroll county. He accumulated
a large landed estate, was the owner of many slaves and was numbered among
the leading planters of the northern part of the state.  His wife
survived him by a number of years, and the estate was greatly depleted
through the ravages of the Civil war and through the consequent freeing of
the family slaves.  Mrs. Dean attained to the venerable age of
ninety-eight years and was summoned to the life eternal about the year
1869, her remains being laid to rest beside those of her husband on the
old homestead plantation.  She became the mother of three sons and four
daughters, all of whom are now deceased.
     Chatz T. Dean was a boy at the time of the family removal to
Carroll county, where he was reared to maturity on the home farm, in the
meanwhile duly availing himself of the advantages of the common schools
of the locality and period.  When about twenty years of age he initiated
his independent career without assistance from his father or others,
and his self-reliance and ambition led him to secure a position in the
employ of Joseph Thompson, who was the owner of several thousand acres of
land in the valley of the Kentucky river and who was a prominent breeder
of fine horses, in connection with which line of enterprise he maintained
a private race track.  Finally Mr. Dean purchased land from Mr. Thompson
and began independent operations as an agriculturist and stock-grower.
He eventually accumulated a valuable landed estate of about one thousand
acres, the greater portion of this tract having been formerly a part of
the Thompson estate, which was originally granted by Virginia to John
Williams and which next passed into the hands of Mr. Thompson, from whom
Mr. Dean purchased his original homestead, as has just been noted.  The
old parchment deed from Virginia, of which Kentucky was then an integral
part, is now in the possession of the subject of this sketch and is prized
as a valuable historical and family heirloom.  Chatz T. Dean became the
owner of a number of slaves, but these were given freedom as the result of
the Civil war.  Mr. Dean was numbered among the representative planters
of Carroll county, was a man of strong character and impregnable integrity
and always held secure place in the confidence and good will of his fellow
men.  He continued to reside on his fine old homestead until his death
in 1873, at the age of sixty-five years.  He was liberal and loyal as a
citizen, was a staunch and effective advocate of the cause of the
Democratic party and both he and his wife were most earnest and zealous
members of the Methodist Episcopal church, with whose southern body they
identified themselves after the Civil war had brought about the division
of the denomination in the north and south.  Mr. Dean defrayed the major
part of the expense of the erection of the Methodist church near his
old homestead, in 1870, and the cost of the building was about three
thousand dollars.  This was called Dean chapel, and when the new edifice
of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, was recently completed in the
village of Worthville it was consistently entitled the Dean Memorial
church, in honor of this noble and honored citizen, members of the family
having contributed most generously to the building of the new church. Mrs.
Dean survived by husband by a period of fifteen years and continued to
reside on the homestead, endeared to her by the gracious memories and
associations of the past, until she too was called to the life eternal, at
the age of seventy-eight years, her memory being revered by all who came
within the compass of her gentle and gracious influence.  She was born in
Bourbon county, Kentucky, where their marriage was solemnized. They
eventually removed to Grant county, where they passed the closing years of
their lives.  Chatz T. and Permelia (Tucker) Dean became the parents of
six children, all of whom are living except one daughter.  Those surviving
are four sons and one daughter, and of the number the youngest is he whose
name forms the caption of this article.
     Chatz M. Dean passed his childhood and youth in the midst of the
gracious environments and influences of the old homestead on which he was
born, and he was but twelve years of age at the time of the death of his
father.  He is indebted to the public schools of Carroll county for his
early education, and he continued to be actively associated with the work
and management of the homestead farm after the death of his father.  He
eventually came into possession of a portion of this fine property, and
there he continued to devote his attention to diversified agriculture
and stock-growing until 1908, when he removed to Worthville, where he
has erected a fine modern residence, in which he has since maintained his
home, though he still retains possession of three well improved farms
near Worthville, the aggregate area of his landed estate being about
five hundred acres.
     Since establishing his residence in Worthville Mr. Dean has engaged
in the real-estate and insurance business in which connection he is a
member of the firm of Nash & Dean, which has built up a large and
prosperous enterprise in this line.  For many years Mr. Dean has been one
of the leading tobacco growers of Carroll county, and when the prices on
the product were so greatly depressed as to make the business unprofitable
under existing conditions he was actively identified with what is known as
the Burley-tobacco pool, in 1902.  He was one of the principal promoters
of the organization of the tobacco-growers of Carroll county at this time
and it was largely due to his active and indefatigable efforts in this
organization that it has been developed to its present status of prominence
and influence.  He was chairman and first secretary of the Carroll county
society thus formed, and he has expended ample time, labor and money in
furthering its interests.
     In politics Mr. Dean has ever accorded unequivocal allegiance to the
cause of the Democratic party and his attitude has ever been marked by
loyal interest in all that tends to conserve the best interests of the
community.  He served as magistrate for eight years, but has had no
definite predilection or desire for public office.  He was one of the
organizers of the Worthville Deposit Bank, of whose directorate he has been
a valued member from the time of its incorporation.  Mr. Dean is affiliated
with the local lodges of the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, and it is worthy of note that in the former his is a
charter member of Worthville Lodge, No. 681, Free & Accepted Masons, at
Worthville, of which he was chosen the first master, and office in which
he served for several terms.  He and his wife are most zealous members of
the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and he was one of the most liberal
contributors to the erection of the Dean Memorial church, of this
denomination, at Worthville.  He has served as elder of the church for
several years and is active in the various departments of its work.
     In the year 1889 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Dean to Miss
Bessie Gullion, who was born and reared in Carroll county, as was also her
father, George P. Gullion, who is one of the representative agriculturists
of the county and a member of one of its old and honored families.  Mr.
and Mrs. Dean have one child, Donna, who was born on the 18th of November,
1903.  The beautiful family home is known for its cordial and refined
hospitality and Mr. and Mrs. Dean find their circle of friends limited
only by that of their acquaintances.

Dean Tucker Williams Thompson Day Gullion
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Grant-KY Bourbon-KY Harrison-KY PA

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