James Clark Dunham

DUNHAM, BUDD

Posted By: LuAnn Goeke (email)
Date: 1/27/2009 at 10:46:21

JAMES DUNHAM, retired farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. Spragueville; he owns 145 acres of land; he was born in Mercer Co., Penn., Aug. 27, 1812, where he grew to manhood and received a good common-school education in his own State and Ohio; in 1850, he emigrated to Jackson Co., Iowa, and located at present residence, purchasing and entering his lands himself. For seventeen years after he came to Jackson Co., he ran the ferry over the Maquoketa River, known all over the country as Dunham's Ferry. He has served his township for many years in different capacities, twenty-six years as Justice of the Peace, and is known far and near as the "Squire," and for years, too numerous to mention, has served as Trustee, both under the old and new administration, also School Director and Road Supervisor. During the war, he gave two sons, who did gallant service for their country - John S. and Phineas Daniel, the later losing his life. He is a stanch old Jacksonian Democrat. He married Sarah Budd, a native of Trumbull Co., Ohio, in Mercer Co., Penn., Sept. 26, 1833, and had seven children, five are living - John S., Martin, Cordelia, James W. and Booth B. He and his family are members of the Baptist Church.- 1879 History of Jackson Co. Iowa, pg. 774