The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-22
NUMBER 43.
The Dea,,- Boke,. Romonce.

\ few days ago we printeda current par
agraPh purpoTtIng to give the paiticulags
of the death of Annie Dean, Of the famous
Dean-Boker marriage about fifteen years
ago. We slid tl.en there was room 10
doubt the correctness of the story, and ghe
following extract from a New York letter
to TIE Philadelphia Brt'etiR seems to con-
firm its worth lessT esS
An article in yuur parcr Of Saturday,
headed ad E.nd cf a Romance, &c.,
does injGStice 20 al Il nest man, and [
hasten to correct he story concocted by
the evil hand of a Washington minister.
Your comments on the cutject viii also,
perhaps, have damaging effect to the
same person, who is trying 10 make his
way through this world by hand labor.
The original John Dean, the hero of tho
famous case with which the name has been
So long and inseFerably associated, and
who married = Miss Mary Ann Boxer of
tins city. some fifteen or sixteen years ago.
Is in New York. and has been stree he left
the employment Of the iady's father
Your correspondent knows him person.
ally, ai.d saw him to-day; il fsct, sees him
almost every day. He has 4 good position,
being connected with the well known cot
ton house of l.. y. Freeman lS Co. ia
Pearl street. where he has en- for ten
years. lie IS living happily with his vile
in HObohel, and las been since the first
day Of his marriage. Despite the numer-
ous SANDERS and obstacles he las had to
contend with during that period, / under
stand he owns the house in which he re-
sides, and also some other valuable prop
eIty. lie enjoys the FL le cn.-dence oI
hiS eIaplos ers, and Is s1l0Acn OF as an III
q Istrious and hard " Or-lIng man. lie has
q fine and frank personal appearance, aid
Is spoken Of by the New \ ork cotton mer-
chants as a steady and good business man.
He tells me he has iga or d newspaper
slander. and says his only enemy is q
clergyman in Washington, who has been
author of all the newspaper articles, AID
who has been writing the sensational arti-
cles about him. He says he has. within a
few years, lost a considerable sum of money
(Which he had accumulated by hard work.
in libel suits against New York paper
especially the sun, when published ~
Beach-but a shoTtneSs of funds prevented
him from carrying out his plans.
This letter Is not written f ON any do
tation on the part of the friends Of Er.
Dean it is merely statement of my per
soual knowledge of the man. l could
give you Il full history Of him, rs am per
soualiy acquainted with him, as well -
nearly all the cotton samplers Ia New York,
but time viii not peTInit me To go into de-
tail. As far as Mr.. Dean is concerned,
neither lie nor his wife, he tells me, c1nsid-
egs a. important any Of the scandal that is
published about them by the newspapers.
The time, I understand, is not far distant
when the cotton mOHeyCd men Of New
y ori- intend going for the clerical gem
teman of Washington III deserving style.
Mr.. John Dean. even though once a coach
man, is appa emily one Of The happie {
mort;ils il the co IutTy. lie has wife
who has stuck to him through ''thicIC and
thin" since their marriage. She is loved
by all her acquaintances, and mingles N
the best society of HObOken, where they
have been living for ten years.