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Dunn, George G – Dunning, Homer N

Dunn, George G

lawyer, congressman, orator, was born in 1813. He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1847 to 1849. He died in September, 1857.

Dunn, George H

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1837 to 1839.

Dunn, Jacob Piatt

state librarian, author. He is the state librarian of Indiana, and the author of History of Indiana; and Massacres of the Mountains, a History of Indian Wars in the Far West.

Dunn, John F

banker, state senator, was born in 1844 in South Carolina. In 1887 he was president of the Merchant's National bank of Ocala, Fla.; became president of the Heather Island Orange company, and has served in the Florida state senate.

Dunn, John V

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1838. He was elected alder. man of Elizabeth, N. J., in 1878, and was four times elected to the legislature of New Jersey; was speaker of the house in 1882; and was elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.

Dunn, Lewis Romaine

clergyman, author, was born in 1822 in New Jersey.

He was a methodist divine of New Jersey, and the author of Lizzie Hagar, the Orphan Girl; The Mission of the Spirit; Angels of God; and Sermons on the Higher Life. He died in 1876.

Dunn, Poindexter

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 3, 1834, in Wake county, N. C. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1858; served in the confederate army, and commenced the practice of law in 1867. He was a presidential elector in 1872 and 1876, and was elected a representative from Arkansas to the forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a democrat.

Dunn, William Mckee

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 12, 1814, in Hanover, Ind. He was elected to the Indiana legislature in 1848, and was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1850. In 1858 he was elected a representative from Indiana to the thirtysixth congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. He became assistant judge advocate in the army; was also a delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists' convention of 1866, and in 1875 was appointed judge advocate-general.

Dunne, Edmund Francis

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born in 1835 in Little Falls, N. Y. He removed to Nevada in 1863; was a delegate to the constitutional convention of that state, and was elected a district judge. In 1874 he was appointed chief justice of the United States court for Arizona.

Dunning, Albert Elijah

clergyman, journalist, author, was born in 1844 in Connecticut. He is a congregational clergyman of Boston, editor of the Congregationalist; and the author of The Sunday-School Library; Bible Studies; and Congregationalists in America.

DUNNING, MRS. ANNIE KETCHUM, author, was born Nov. 2, 1831, in New York city. She is a prolific writer of Sunday-school tales, mainly for the presbyterian board of publication. Among them are Clementina's Mirror; A Story of Four Lives; Broken Pitchers; and Contradictions.

Dunning, Frances

author, poet, was born Oct. 13, 1841, in Kenosha, Wis.

She is the author of a volume of poems which was published in 1877. She is also a prose writer of Madison, Wis., and her contributions for the past ten years have made her name well known in the literary world.

Dunning, Homer N

clergyman, author, poet, was born July 17, 1827, in Brookfield, Conn. For thirteen years he was pastor of the First Congregational church of Gloversville, N. Y., and from 1866-83 was pastor of his church at South Norwalk, Conn. His poems have appeared in the secular and religious press, and in several standard works, such as Edwards' Fifth Reader, and Foster's Cyclopedia.