Robert R. Dearden, president of the United States Review Publishing Company and a former member of the State Legislature, died suddenly of heart disease Thursday night in his apartments at 1736 North Park avenue. He was an authority on insurance subjects. Born in Lowell, Mass., on March 23, 1845, Mr. Dearden was of English ancestry. He was educated in the public schools of his native city and at the English and Classical Institute of Springfield, Mass. Upon completing his studies he went into business with his father in Springfield. When the Civil War began Mr. Dearden, a boy of sixteen, enlisted in a company which became part of the Forty-sixth Infantry of Massachusetts. When the command was mustered into service he was rejected on account of his youth and immature physique. Mr. Dearden first came to Philadelphia early in 1867, but later satisfied a desire to see the West and went to the Territory of Nebraska. Soon afterward he settled in Chicago, becoming associated with a publishing house. The following year he founded a semi-monthly, the Northwestern Review. Three years later, in 1871, the plant was destroyed in the great fire. He resumed business immediately, and in 1875 moved the paper to Philadelphia and changed its name to the United States Review. He was continuously the editor and publisher of the paper more than fifty-four years. From early in life Mr. Dearden took an active interest in public affairs, and in recognition of his services to the party in the Garfield campaign, the Republicans of the then Twenty-first, but now the Twenty-seventh Legislature District, tendered him the nomination for the State House of Representatives. He was elected. Altogether he served at various times sixteen yeas in the Pennsylvania Legislature. ("Deaths of a Day," Philadelphia Evening Ledger, Jan. 28, 1922)