Obituary printed in the Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) on Saturday, Sept. 2, 1871 on page 4.
DIED - On Wednesday, the 30th, at one quarter past 3 o'clock P.M., at his residence in Wilkinsburg, PHILOTUS DEAN, in the forty-ninth year of his age.
His friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from the Third Presbyterian Church, Sixth avenue, on Saturday the 2nd, at 2 o 'clock P.M., to proceed to Union Dale Cemetery.
The Ohio State Journal, Columbus, Thursday August 31, 1871, Page 3
Contributed by: Billy Walker (31535270)
Professor Philotus Dean, principal of the High School in Pittsburg for fifteen years, Died yesterday afternoon after a short illness. He was a graduate of Yale College, also of the Theological Department of Oberlin College. He was a Congregational minister in Ohio and went to Pittsburg to accept the Presidency of Avery College for colored pupils.
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Philotus Dean, fourth son of Amos and Nancy (Kempton) Dean, was Bom in South Glastonbury, Conn., 29 Oct., 1822.
After graduating, he remained at home in consequence of ill health, until Nov., 1844, when he entered the theological seminary in Oberlin, Ohio. He was licensed to preach, 18 June, 1846, by the Lorain County Congregational Association. From Nov. 1846 to April, 1849 (with the exception of one summer spent in preaching in Penfield, O.), he taught in Selma, O. In Dec, 1849, he was appointed principal of Avery College, Allegheny City, Pa., where he remained until September, 1855, when he was elected to the chair of Natural Science in the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Central High School. Three years later he became principal of the school and held these two positions until his death. He was also from Nov., 1863, to Sept., 1867, director of the Allegheny Observatory, and spent his leisure time in astronomical calculations, and in editing a series of arithmetic.
He died of dysentery, Aug. 30, 1871, at his residence in Wilkinsburg, after an illness of two weeks. His physicians were confident that he could have recovered, if his constitution had not been greatly weakened by excessive devotion to his official duties.
Professor Dean was married 16 Aug., 1852, to Miss Grace P. Southmayd of Middletown, Conn., who survives him, as do two of their three children.
(Yale Alumni Obituary Manuscript)
Obituary printed in the Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) on Saturday, Sept. 2, 1871 on page 4.
DIED - On Wednesday, the 30th, at one quarter past 3 o'clock P.M., at his residence in Wilkinsburg, PHILOTUS DEAN, in the forty-ninth year of his age.
His friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from the Third Presbyterian Church, Sixth avenue, on Saturday the 2nd, at 2 o 'clock P.M., to proceed to Union Dale Cemetery.
The Ohio State Journal, Columbus, Thursday August 31, 1871, Page 3
Contributed by: Billy Walker (31535270)
Professor Philotus Dean, principal of the High School in Pittsburg for fifteen years, Died yesterday afternoon after a short illness. He was a graduate of Yale College, also of the Theological Department of Oberlin College. He was a Congregational minister in Ohio and went to Pittsburg to accept the Presidency of Avery College for colored pupils.
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Philotus Dean, fourth son of Amos and Nancy (Kempton) Dean, was Bom in South Glastonbury, Conn., 29 Oct., 1822.
After graduating, he remained at home in consequence of ill health, until Nov., 1844, when he entered the theological seminary in Oberlin, Ohio. He was licensed to preach, 18 June, 1846, by the Lorain County Congregational Association. From Nov. 1846 to April, 1849 (with the exception of one summer spent in preaching in Penfield, O.), he taught in Selma, O. In Dec, 1849, he was appointed principal of Avery College, Allegheny City, Pa., where he remained until September, 1855, when he was elected to the chair of Natural Science in the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Central High School. Three years later he became principal of the school and held these two positions until his death. He was also from Nov., 1863, to Sept., 1867, director of the Allegheny Observatory, and spent his leisure time in astronomical calculations, and in editing a series of arithmetic.
He died of dysentery, Aug. 30, 1871, at his residence in Wilkinsburg, after an illness of two weeks. His physicians were confident that he could have recovered, if his constitution had not been greatly weakened by excessive devotion to his official duties.
Professor Dean was married 16 Aug., 1852, to Miss Grace P. Southmayd of Middletown, Conn., who survives him, as do two of their three children.
(Yale Alumni Obituary Manuscript)
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