Isaac D. Dunn

            ISAAC D. DUNN, farmer and stock raiser, was born July 4, 1882, in Cumberland County, Me., and is the ninth of the twelve children of William and Nancy (Farrington) Dunn, both natives of Maine, and of Irish and Italian extraction. Isaac Dunn was reared a farmer, and remained with his parents until he was twenty-one years of age, and then attended the Asbury College at Greencastle, Ind., six years, some of which time was spent in teaching. On leaving home, he had $50, but on arriving in this State $4.50. After his school period, he paid a visit to his father, for whom he purchased a home, and thereafter traveled for the North Wayne Scythe Company for two years, when he settled in Richmond, Ind., and engaged in the leather and tanning business, in which he has yet an interest. In 1873, he located in this township, where he owned a farm, now comprising 1,000 acres, and from which he ships from 1,200 to 1,500 tons of hay each year.

    In the summer of 1852, he married Nancy B. Coffin,a native of Massachusetts, which union was honored with four children, three having lived to receive names _ John C., Carrie C. and George N. Mr. Dunn is a freemason and Odd Fellow; has been an active Republican since the creation of that party, and was elected Commissioner of Jasper County in the fall of 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Dunn are members of the M.E. Church.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana by F.A. Battey & Co., 1883, page 590.