. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igiS. The American Florist. OBITUARY. James Dean. James Dean, past president of the Society of American Florists, chief executive of the national organization at its Washington convention in 1892, also president of the New York Flor- ists' Club during the same year, and one of its charter members passed to his last rest at his home at Freeport, N. Y., July 16, of arterial sclerosis, after a long and useful career. He had reached the age of 74 years. Mr. Dean was born on the estate of the Marquis of Queens- bury, D
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igiS. The American Florist. OBITUARY. James Dean. James Dean, past president of the Society of American Florists, chief executive of the national organization at its Washington convention in 1892, also president of the New York Flor- ists' Club during the same year, and one of its charter members passed to his last rest at his home at Freeport, N. Y., July 16, of arterial sclerosis, after a long and useful career. He had reached the age of 74 years. Mr. Dean was born on the estate of the Marquis of Queens- bury, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, where his father was employed as gardener, coming to the United States in 1850 and attended school at Astoria. L. I., his father having secured the position of gardener on the estate of the Rev. Dr. Howland at that place. At the outbreak of the Civil war in 1861, the deceased ran away from home and en- listed in the Seventy-second New York Volunteer Regiment, returned at its close as commanding officer of his com- pany, and entered the employ of W. C. Wilson, who at that time conducted one of the largest florist establishments in America. Later he became gardener on the estate of W. C. Dangley at Bay Ridge. L. I., who during the 60's and 70's had large conservatories and was a successful exhibitor at the New York and Brooklyn shows. Later he formed a partnership with J. M. Keller, the firm being Keller & Dean, but after five years, following its dissolution, Mr. Dean started into business on his own account, making a specialty of foliage and Easter plants for the New York and surrounding markets and met with excellent success. Another of his brilliant achievements was the supervision of the floricultural exhibit of the State of New York at the Chi- cago World's Fair, in 1893, the display covering six and three-quarter acres and being awarded 82 medals and di- plomas. This number was about equal to that given to all the rest of the states combined in
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