Oliver Dean
Dr. Oliver Dean was an American physician and philanthropist who founded Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts.
Dean was born in Franklin in 1783. He became a medical doctor and then changed careers and became manager of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in Manchester, New Hampshire. After retiring to Franklin, Dean founded a local Universalist church. In 1865, Dean founded the co-educational Dean Academy by donating $125,000 and approximately nine acres of land for the school, which was initially led by Arthur W. Peirce, known as "Awpie".
Dean died in 1871.
