Dunbar, Charles M.

DUNBAR

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 3/1/2008 at 17:35:12

Jackson Sentinel, July 25, 1878.

Dunbar Endorsed for District Attorney.

C. M. DUNBAR, ESQ., is our candidate, and if he really desires the

nomination, he has strong claims upon the convention, claims in fact

that it would be unjust to ignore. Mr. Dunbar is a self-made man;

commenced here a poor boy, and through his indomitable energy and

commendable perseverance and industry, is today among the best

attorneys in the district.

As to politics, no man in the District has a better Democratic

record. He carried the banner through the hottest political

campaigns of 1864 and '66 when to be a Democrat, was to have the

finger of scorn pointed at you and be branded a traitor and

copperhead, and when the chances for success were most discouraging,

he did his work so well on the stump as to redeem the country from

radical rule in 1867. And now that the chances for election are

bright, it would be nothing but fair that he receive the nomination

for District Attorney. Mr. Dunbar is popular as a lawyer in this

county and is well and favorably known throughout the District, and

is a gentleman who, with his deserved popularity, is worthy, both as

to ability and integrity of character to be our nominee for District

Attorney. One thing is sure, that if nominated he would poll a large

vote, and if elected would reflect credit upon the party and

district by his sterling sense, his unimpeachable honor, and his

legal ability.

The History of Jackson County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, 1879.

CHARLES M. DUNBAR, attorney at law, Maquoketa, is a native of

Charleston, Coles County, Illinois, and was born December 21, 1833.

In 1836, his father removed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and in 1846,

came to Iowa and located in this county, where he in 1848; the

family being broken up, Charles M. lived with John E. Goodenow in

Maquoketa for two years; he then entered a store as a clerk. In 1852

he went to Chicago and took a course in Bell's Commercial College;

on his return he engaged in the capacity as clerk and bookkeeper,

and during his leisure time turned his attention to the study of the

law, and was admitted to the bar in November 1858, and since then

has practiced his profession in this county; he is the senior

attorney in practice in this city; he has a very lucrative practice,

and has accumulated considerable property; his law library is the

largest and best in the county. In 1858 he married Miss Charlotte L.

Walker, of New York; she died March 1, 1865, leaving one daughter,

Emma. In July, 1868, he married Mrs. Myra A. Fiske (formerly Miss

Myra A. Shore), a native of New York; they have one son, - Louis S.

Mrs. Dunbar has two children - Ferdima C. and Charles W. Fiske.