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Rh DUNN, Thomas, Canadian legislator, b. in 1730 ; d. in Quebec, 15 April, 1818. As a senior member of the Executive council of Lower Canada he as- sumed the administration of the government on the departure of Sir R. S. Milnes in 1805, and again became administrator on the departure of Gov. Craig, performing this function until the arrival of Sir George Prevost in 1811. During the time that he held office he permitted Monseigneur Panet to be elected to the coadjutorship, and both then and previously advocated a removal of the disa- bilities which the Roman Catholic clergy suffered. He was also a pxiisne judge of the court of king's bench, and a Lower Canadian seignior. — His son, WiUiain, British soldier, b. in London, England, in 1787; d. 24 July, 1868, entered the army in 1803, served in the campaign in Italy, at the battle of Maida and capture of Scylla Castle in 1806, in the expedition to Egypt in 1807, and the cam- paigns in the Peninsula in 1810 and 1811. He served in Canada in 1814 during the war with the United States, and was present at the taking of Moose island and the occupation of Castine. In 1857 he retired from active service with the rank of major-general on full pay.

DUNN, Williamson, pioneer, b. near Danville, Ky., 25 Dec, 1781; d. in Hanover, Ind., 11 Nov., 1854. He removed to Indiana territory in 1809, settled in Jefferson county, and was appointed jus- tice of the peace, and judge of the court of com- mon pleas of Jefferson county, in 1811, by Gen. Harrison, then governor of the territory. During the war of 1812 he was commissioned by President Madison captain of a company of rangers, an or- ganization provided by congress for the protection of the frontier settlements, which he had in charge for two years. In 1814 Gov. Posey commissioned him an associate judge of the circuit court of Jef- ferson county. He held this office until 1816, when he entered the first legislature under the state constitution. He was one of the original members and first ruling elders of the Presbyterian church, organized in 1820 at Hanover, a village laid out on his farm. He was a representative in the first three legislatures of the state of Indiana, and was twice speaker. While in the state legislature he was virtually offered a seat in the U. S. senate, but declined. In 1823, having been appointed by President Monroe as register of the land office, he removed to the wilderness, and, in connection with Maj. Whitlock, the receiver, laid out the town of Crawfordsville. He was re-appointed register in 1827, retaining the office till 1829. He returned to Hanover in 1829, was one of the founders of Han- over college, to which he donated fifty acres of land, and served as one of its trustees for many years. He also gave to Wabash college the tract of land on which it was erected, and was a mem- ber of its first board of trustees. These colleges are indebted to him for their establishment. After his return to Jefferson county he was elected to the state senate, to fill an luiexpired term, and in 1843 was a defeated candidate for the senate. He also served another term on the bench, to which he was re-elected, and held the office till the court was abolished. Judge Dunn began the movement that culminated in the election of Zachary Tay- lor to the presidency by the Whigs in 1848. Judge Dunn's unyielding devotion to conviction twice cost him a seat in the state senate. He was prominent in the councils of the Presbyterian church, and widely known as connected with the early history of Indiana. — His son, William McKee, lawver, b. in Hanover, Jefferson co., Ind., 12 Dec, 1814 ; d. in Maplewood, Fairfax co., Va., 24 July, 1887. He was graduated at the Indiana state university in Blonmington in 1832, and be- came professor of mathematics at Hanover col- lege, Indiana. After a graduate course at Yale, where he received the degree of A. M. in 1835, he studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practised for many years in Madison, Ind. He was a mem- ber of the legislature in 1848, a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1850, and was then chosen to congress as a Republican, serving from 1859 till 1863. When the war broke out he was offered a colonelcy by Gov. Morton, and a brigadiership by President Lincoln, but declined both. During his second term he was chairman of the committee on patents. He was defeated in the election for the following congress, and on 13 March, 1863, was appointed major and judge-ad- vocate, U. S. volunteers, in the department of Mis- souri. On 22 June, 1864, he became colonel and assistant judge-advocate-general, U. S. army, and was brevetted brigadier-general, U. S. army, in March, 1865, for faithful, meritorious, and distin- guished services in his department. On the re- tirement of Judge-advocate-general Holt, he was appointed to the place. He was a delegate to the PJiiladelphia loyalists' convention of 1866. Gen. Dunn became judge-advocate-general, with the rank of brigadier-general, on 1 Dec, 1875, and on 22 Jan., 1881, was retired from active service.

DUNNELL, Mark Hill, congressman, b. in Buxton, Me., 2 July, 1823. He was graduated at Waterville college (now Colby university) in 1849, and for five years was the principal of Norway and Hebron academies. He was a member of the lower house of the Maine legislature in 1854, and in 1855 of the state senate, and from that time till 1859 was state superintendent of common schools. In 1856 he was a delegate to the National Republican convention at Philadelphia. He began the practice of the law at Portland in 1860, served in the Union army as colonel of the 5th Maine in- fantry, and in 1862 was U. S. consul at Vera Cruz, Mexico. He removed to Minnesota in 1865, \}^as a member of the legislature there in 1867, and in 1867-'70 was state superintendent of public instruc- tion. He was then chosen to congress as a Republi- can, and served lour terms in succession, in 1871-'9.

DUNNING, Annie Ketchum, author, b. in New York city, 2 Nov., 1831. She is a daughter of Hiram Ketchum, a politician of some distinction; was educated in private schools in New York, and was for several years a pupil of John S. C. Abbott. She married Rev. Andrew Dunning, pastor of the Congregational church in Thompson. Conn., and to supplement his small salary wrote her first story, "Clementina's Mirror " (New York, 1857). She then became a writer for the Presbyterian board of publication, by which most of her subsequent volumes, about fifty in number, have been published. Most of her books have been written vmder the pseudonym of "Nellie Grahame." Her books include " Whispers from Dreamland " (Philadelphia, 1861); "Mistaken" (New York, 1866); "First Glass of Wine" (Boston, 1866); "Blind Jessie" (1866); "Only a Penny" (Philadelphia, 1867); "Only a Child " (1868) ; '" Miss Latimer's Meetings " (1869) ; "Fred Wilson" (1870); "Mary's New Friends" (1871) ; " A Story of Four Lives, or Mistaken " (Boston, 1871). DUNNING, Edward Osborne, Congregational minister, b. in 1810; d. in New Haven, Conn., 23 March, 1874. He was graduated at Yale in 1832, and at its theological department in 1835, and was settled as a pastor in Rome and in Canajoharie, N. Y.. till 1846. He then accepted an