James R. Dean

James Renwick Dean (September 15, 1862 – January 5, 1936) was a justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court from 1909 to 1910, and again from 1917 to 1935.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Henry and Ellen Margaret Dean, his father emigrated from County Antrim, Ireland, at age seventeen, and his mother was a native of South Carolina, of Scotch-Irish descent.

[1] That year he located and entered practice in Chicago, where he remained until he came to Broken Bow, Custer County, Nebraska.

[1] A Presbyterian, he was commissioned in 1906 from the presbytery to the General Assembly at Des Moines, Iowa.

[1] Dean also maintained a farm northeast of Broken Bow where he began growing alfalfa, having become interested in the crop in 1910, and coming to yield 100 acres per year within the next decade.