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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Centennial
Biographical History of Hancock Co., Ohio
Pub: New York & Chicago by The Lewis Publishing Company
1903
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BAKER DAILEY
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- Pub: New York & Chicago by The Lewis Publishing
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W. C. DAMAN
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ABNER L. DAVIS
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DAVID T. DAVID
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DISAAC DAVIS
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MRS. REBECCA N. DAVY
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ROBERT DAVY
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JAMES DECKER
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GEORGE A. DEIHLMAN
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- Pub: New York & Chicago by The Lewis Publishing
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WILLIAM A. DEMLAND
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James Dennison |
JAMES DENNISON
Source: Centennial Biographical History of Hancock
Co., Ohio - Pub: New York & Chicago by The Lewis
Publishing Company - 1903 - Page 52
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GEORGE W. DeVORE
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SURREL P. DeWOLF
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- Pub: New York & Chicago by The Lewis Publishing
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DAVID DICK
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JAMES C. DONNELL
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WALLACE DORSEY
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John N. Doty |
JOHN N. DOTY
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WILLIAM C. DOTY
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JESSE L. DOZER
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- Pub: New York & Chicago by The Lewis Publishing
Company - 1903 - Page 305 |
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DAVID M. DREISBACH
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GABRIEL M. DREISBACH
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CLARK W. DUKES
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Company - 1903 - Page 362 |
Lewis S. Dukes
Mrs. Lewis S. Dukes |
LEWIS S. DUKES
Source: Centennial Biographical History of Hancock
Co., Ohio - Pub: New York & Chicago by The Lewis
Publishing Company - 1903 - Page 16 |
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ELIJAH T. DUNN.
In reviewing the prominent members of the Hancock
bar the name of Elijah T. Dunn takes
precedence of many of his professional brethren, and
we are pleased to present to his numerous friends
and acquaintances a sketch of his useful life.
The ancestry of the Dunn family is traced
back to about 1720, when George Dunn, with
two brothers, all Protestants, came from near
Londonderry, in the north of Ireland, to Long
Island. One brother subsequently settled in
New Jersey, while George took up his abode in
Maryland, and from these brothers the Dunns
of Hamilton county, Ohio, Indiana and a part of
those in Kentucky, Virginia and Pennsylvania derive
their descent. George Dunn was a
Baptist minister, and he carried "the glad tidings
of great joy" west of the Allegheny mountains into
what, in his honor, was called Dunn's Gap.
The date of his birth, death and marriage and the
name of his wife are unknown. His son, also
named George, became a farmer near Harper's
Ferry, in Maryland or Virginia. By his wife,
Susanna, he had four sons and two daughters,
namely: John, who died in Washington county,
Maryland, about 1831 ; George; Jacob,
who died in Knox county, Ohio, about 1862; Peter,
who died in Kentucky a few years before the war of
the rebellion; Catherine, who married
James Schnebly, and with him settled near
Xenia, Ohio; and Mary (or Polly), who
married a Mr. Elam and settled in
western Ohio. The father of this family
departed this life on the 22d of February, 1817,
while his wife was called to her final rest on the
27th of April, 1811.
George Dunn, the second son of the second
George Dunn and the third bearing the
name, was born in Washington county, Maryland, Jan.
8, 1779. and his death occurred in Wood county,
Ohio, on the 13th of December. 1965. He was
married near the close of the eighteenth century to
Sarah Mills, who was born in 1776, and died
in1845. Their children, all born in Maryland,
were as follows: Robert, who was born
Sept. 8, 1798, and died on the 21st of August, 1872,
married Mary Forsyth; John, who was
born Dec. 1, 1799, and died Mar. 9, 1851, married
Elizabeth D. Boolman; Susanna died on the
7th of August, 1802, in infancy; Jacob, who
was born July 8, 1803, and died in 1879, married
Sally Boolman; George, who was born Feb.
20, 1805, and died in 1881, married Rachel Mills;
James, born Feb. 20, 1807, and died Mar. 16,
1867, married Margaret Coplin; Moses,
who was born Jan. 20, 1809, and died Aug. 22, 1829,
never married; William, who was born Jan. 29,
1811, died before marriage on the 1st of February,
1859; Maria, who was born Dec. 16, 1812,
alone survives, and is the widow of Jonathan Dean;
Elizabeth, born June 19, 1814, died Jan. 31,
1817; and Peter, who was born May 4, 1816,
and died Aug. 19, 1855, never married.
John Dunn, the
second son of the third George Dunn, married
Elizabeth Dorothea Boolman who was born in
Washington county, Maryland, Jan. 1, 1803. Her
father, Nicholas Boolman wa born about 1774,
and his father came from Germany to Maryland about
1765. Nicholas Boolman married
Magdalene Troxel, who was born about the same
time as her husband, and but little is known of her
family history. The children of Nicholas
and Magdalene Boolman were as follows:
Catharine, who was born about 1796, married
Hiram Lynch; Samuel who was born in 1798, and
died in 1864, was twice married, the wives being
sisters, and the last wife bore the name of Sarah
A.; Jacob, who was born in 1800, and died
before marriage, in 1817; Elizabeth D.,
born Jan. 1, 1803, married John Dunn,
and died in March, 1883: Sally, born in 1804,
and died in 1856, married Jacob Dunn,
a brother of John Dunn; and Nancy,
who was born about 1806, died in 1822. John
Dunn, with his wife and their three eldest
children and his father, George Dunn,
removed from Maryland to Fairfield county, Ohio, in
1826. From there they removed to Greene
county, this state, thence to Knox county, Ohio, and
in 1844 came to Wood county, where he died as above
stated. The children of John and Elizabeth
D. Dunn are as follows: Ann, born Dec. 5,
1820, married Adam Cosner on the 15th
of April, 1841; Jacob (B.), born Sept. 30,
1823, married Angeline Culp Sept. 23, 1847;
Joseph, born Jan. 1, 1826, married Mary
Niebel Apr. 12, 1883; George, born
Oct. 3, 1827, died Aug. 29, 1855, unmarried;
Maria, born Sept. 22, 1829, married Wilson
Stretcher July 20, 1865; Aaron, born
Dec. 16, 1831, died Oct. 20, 1846, unmarried;
Samuel, born May 1834, married Margaret
Bishop Mar. 3, 1836, Joseph Hoot July 7,
1861; Nathaniel, born Sept. 5, 1838, Oct. 14,
1846; Elijah (T.), born June 20, 1840,
married Martha I. Strother Jan. 12, 1865;
Mary Magdalene, born June 5, 1842, died
Oct. 177, 1846; John (R.), born Mar. 24,
1844, died Aug. 11, 1865, unmarried; and Thomas
Corwin, born Nov. 3, 1847, was married on the
9th of March, 1871, to Emma T. Lewis.
The above names, not including the initials in
brackets, are those by which the children were
christened, the initials "B., T. and
R." being afterward chosen by Jacob,
Elijah and John partly to aid in
distinguishing from others having similar first
initials and partly to preserve traces of the old
family names of Boolman, Troxel and Rench,
though in what way they are related to the latter
family does not appear in the records. The
mother was also related to the Hagers, from
one of whom Hagerstown, Maryland, was named. A
family of the name of Chambers, of Chambersburg, was
also in some way connected with the ancestry.
Elijah T. Dunn, a son of John and Elizabeth
D. Dunn, accompanied his parents on their
removal to Wood county, Ohio, in 1844, a location
being made in what was then known as the "Black
Swamp," where, around a hickory bark fire and with
three terms in a winter school, his early education
was completed. At the age of thirteen he
entered the office of the Herald of Freedom, at
Wilmington, and became an expert printer.
Subsequently he taught several terms of school in
Clark and Hancock counties, pursuing in the meantime
the study of law. On the outbreak of the
rebellion he united with the Union party while yet a
minor, and did service for a short time as a member
of the Twenty-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteers.
Becoming unable to perform duty as a soldier,
however, he continued for a time in a clerkship in
the quartermaster's department at Nashville,
Tennessee, and thence, returning to Findlay, he
completed his law course, being admitted to the bar
on the 2d of August, 1862. He was at that time
twenty-two years of age, and he immediately located
for practice at Findlay, where he has ever since
been identified with the legal profession.
Besides conducting a large law practice Mr. Dunn
owns and controls a good farm and devotes
considerable attention to fine cattle. He is a
stockholder and director in the Farmers National
Bank, a director and secretary of the Findlay Gas
Light Company and of the Findlay Oil and Gas
Company, and is president of the Wood and Hancock
Oil and Gas Company. Much of his attention is
devoted to financial matters, but at the same time
he favors public improvement and on all questions
involving public enterprises he takes a leading and
aggressive part.
On the 12th of January, 1865, Mr. Dunn was
married to Martha I., a daughter of Anthony
Strother, of Findlay, and they have had three
sons: Bernard L., John A. and James C.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Dunn are members of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and the former is also
affiliated with Stoker Post, G. A. R., and Hancock
Lodge, I. O. O. F. He votes with the
Republican party, and, although not a politician, he
has held the offices of justice of the peace and
collector of internal revenue. He is a member
of one of the oldest and most highly respected
families of the Buckeye state, and as far back as
they are known it may be said that they have been
honest, industrious and intelligent, and never was
one convicted of crime. They have never become
distinguished, but along the vale of life have kept
the even tenor of their way.
Source:
Centennial Biographical History of Hancock Co., Ohio
- Pub: New York & Chicago by The Lewis Publishing
Company - 1903 - Page 525 |
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