Sacramento County
Biographies
CHARLES F. DEAN
CHARLES F. DEAN.—Sacramento
County has good reason to be proud of its
professional men, among whom is numbered Mr. Charles F. Dean, of the well-known
firm of architects, Messrs. Dean & Dean, of Sacramento. He was born at Belton,
Texas on February 1, 1884, and is now
associated with his brother, James S., whose life story is given elsewhere in
this work. As he began life with the
best home advantages, it is not surprising that in his pursuit of one of the
noblest and most honored of professions, he should do much to elevate the
minds, and beautify the lives of others.
Charles
F. Dean enjoyed both the ordinary grammar school and the high school courses of
instruction, and then spent three years at the Agricultural and Mechanical
College at Bryan,
Texas, where he took a civil engineer’s
course, with special work in drawing. The next two years he spent in San
Antonio, Texas, and after that, seven years in Chicago, following his
profession; and then in 1908, he came out to California, and entered the state
service as chief designer of the state architect’s office—a position of
peculiar responsibility and some opportunity, which he filled with eminent
satisfaction until 1922, when he resigned.
Mr.
Dean then joined his brother, and they have since expanded more and more as
practical architects equipped to undertake very pretentious work,
and being more and more encouraged by increasing demands for their services.
Public-spirited
to a high degree, the Messrs. Dean & Dean have done what they could to
improve the standards, in particular, of domestic architecture.
In
1913, Mr. Dean and Miss Alvina Laue,
of Sacramento, were married at Sacramento,
and Mrs. Dean has entered into her husband’s ambitions, and shared his social
and intellectual life. Mr. Dean is a
Republican.
Transcribed
by Patricia Seabolt.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 518. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Patricia Seabolt.