J.D. Dunn

             J.D. DUNN, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Greene County, Tenn., August 15, 1820, and is the only child of James and Elizabeth (Hedrick) Dunn, natives of Tennessee, and of Irish and English descent; the former died of yellow fever in 1821, and his widow afterward married Henry Freshaur, and both moved to Iowa, where they died. Our subject came to this State with his mother when twelve years old; his education was neglected, having to work at farm work, which he followed until manhood, after which he worked at teaming from Fort Wayne to Toledo and Logansport.

    In 1840, he came to this county (Jasper), and the next fall managed a breaking team with five oxen, which he followed for thirteen summers. He also bought and sold claims, and his first purchase of land for himself was forty acres; this and other purchase he sold, and finally bought his present place of 153 acres, forty of which are in cultivation with buildings and other improvements.

    November 26, 1839, he married Miss Rachel Campbell, of Stark County, Ohio, daughter of James Campbell, a pioneer of this township. Mr. and Mrs. Dunn in the early days made their own clothing from their own fabrics, and otherwise experienced the hardships of the pioneer. They are both member of the M.E. Church.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana by F.A. Battey & Co., 1883, page 573.