E. A. Dean
E. A. Dean, secretary and treasurer of The Sinclair & Morrison Company, of Lima, has been a resident of this city for the past 21 years. He was born at Stockport, England, December 1, 1853, and is a son of Thomas and Rebecca (Unsworth) Dean.
The parents of Mr. Dean were also natives of Stockport, and they came to America when our subject was four years of age, locating at Allegheny City, Pennsylvania.
E. A. Dean was educated in the public school at Allegheny City and Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York, being graduated from the latter institution in 1875. He then accepted a position as bookkeeper at Port Jervis, New York, where he remained some eight years and then embarked in the mercantile business at Washington, D. C. After spending two years in the national capital, he came to Lima in 1884, and for six years was engaged in the dry goods business on the South Side. He then accepted the position of Secretary and treasurer of The Sinclair & Morrison Company. He is also connected with a number of the other successful business organizations of this section, in all of which he takes an active interest.
In December, 1876, Mr. Dean was married to Mary Pomeroy, who is a daughter of George Pomeroy, of Butler, Pennsylvania. They have a family of three sons and two daughters, viz: Howard P., a teller employed by The Lima Trust Company; Walter O., a student in the electric engineering department of the State University at Columbus; Chester E., a student at Lima College; Doris W. And Edna G.
Mr. Dean is an independent voter, but has been very active in the cause of Prohibition, and has been the candidate of the party for mayor of Lima. He is a prominent man of affairs here, and is a member of the Board of Sinking Fund Trustees and Tax Commissioners.