JAMES DUNN
James Dunn, born in Ingham county, Michigan, on the 27th of May, 1847, is the son of John and Mary Dunn, both of whom died when James was a boy. When fourteen years of age, he began to provide for himself, while the younger children were to be cared for. He fought his way through the world, and when seventeen years of age, enlisted in company A, Twenty-eighth Michigan Volunteers. He joined Sherman's army at Raleigh, and served in that capacity until the close of the war, when he was honorable discharged. His brother, Ezra A., who was a member of the Eighth Cavalry, died in the Andersonville prison. James came to Cass county in 1873, and worked five years for William Hopley, of Atlantic township, and a few years later bought the farm he now occupies, of eighty acres on section 1, and seventeen acres of timber on section 2, Cass township, where he is among the enterprising and intelligent farmers. Mr. Dunn was united in marriage in March, 1878, with Miss Helena Hopley, a daughter of John Hopley, a resident of Atlantic township. They have been blessed with three children...Earl Tennimore, Ina Louise and Grace Alma.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 510-511.
