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 DUXLOP

DUNNE

DUNLOP, James, jurist, was born in George- town, D.L'., .M.uvli JS. 17y:3. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1811 and was licensed to practise law in 1814, entering into luirtnersliip with his former preceptor, Francis S. Key in Georgetown. In 1833 he was acting dis- trict attorney, and was recorder of Georgetown, 1833-37. In the Lvtter year he became judge of the criminal court of the District of Columbia, wjis advanced to the assistant judgeship of the U.S. circuit court, Oct. 3, 1845, and on Nov. 27, 18.JJ, was appointed chief justice of the United Stiites circuit coui-t, liolding the position until the iliscontinuance of the court in 18G3. He died in (ieorgetown. D.C, May 6, 1872.

DUNN, Poindexter, representative, was born in Wake county, N.C., Nov. 3, 1834; son of Grey Dunn, a prosperous planter. He removed with his parents to Limes-tone county, Ala., in 1887, and was graduated at Jackson college, Cohinibia, Tenn., in 1834. He removed to St. Francis county. Ark., and was a state representative, 1858-61. He took no active iwrt in the civil war and was admitted to the bar in 1867. He was an electoral candidate on the Greeley and Brown ticket in 1872 and on the Tilden and Hendricks ticket in 1876. He was a representative from the 1st dis- trict of Arkansas in the 46th, 47th, 48th, 49th and oOth congresses, 1879-89. He was defeated in the election of 1885 for United States senator, and retired from public life on the expiration of his congressional term, ]\Iarch 3, 1889.

DUNN, William McKee, representative, was born in Hanover, Ind., Dec. 12, 1814; son of Wil- liamson Dunn, pioneer settler of Indiana, and a founder of Hanover and Wabash colleges. He was graduated at Indiana state university in 1832, was profes.sor of mathematics at Hanover, 1835, and took a post-graduate course at Yale, receiving from that institution the honorary degree of A.M. in 1835. He practised law in Madison, Ind., was a representative in the state legi.slature in 1838, a delegate to the state consti- tutional convention of 1850, and a representative in the 36th and 37th congresses, 1859-63. In the 37th congress he was chairman of the committee on patents. He was defeated in the election for the 38th congress and was ajjjjointed by President Lincoln to the U.S. volunteer service as major and judge-advocate in the department of Mis- souri. He was promoted colonel and judge-ad- vocate-general, U.S.A., June 22, 1864, and re- ceived the brevet of brigadier-general, U.S. army, in March, 1865, for faithful, meritorious and dis- tinguished .services in his department. He was a delegate to the Loyalist convention of 1866 at Philadelphia. He succeeded Judge Joseph Holt as judge-advocate-general on his retirement from the bureau of military justice, Dec. 1, 1875, and

lie was retired from active service, Jan. 22, 1881. He received the degree of LL.D. from Hanover college (Ind.) in 1877. Judge Dunn died in Maplewooil, Fairfax county, Va., July 28, 1887.

DUNN, Williamson, pioneer, was born near Danville, Ky., Dec. 25, 1781. He acquired a limited education and about 1809 removed to Jefferson county, Indiana Territory. He was made justice of the peace and in 1811 judge of the court of common i^leas, receiving his ai)pointment from Governor Harrison. In the war of 1812 he was commissioned by President I\lonroe captain of an organized band of rangers provided by con- gress for the protection of the frontier settlers. He commanded this company for two years and in 1814 was appomted by Governor Po.sey asso- ciate judge of the circuit court of Jefferson county. In 1816 he represented his county in the first legislature of the state and was twice re- elected, serving as speaker of the house in the 2d and 3d legislatures and while so serving declined a seat in the U.S. senate. In 1823 he was ap- pointed register of the land office of the state by President Monroe and while holding this position removed to the wilderness and laid out the town of Crawfordville. He was reappointed in 1827, and in 1829 removed to Hanover where he do- nated fifty acres of land to Hanover college, as a farm for a manual school, which institution he helped to found in 1832 and of which he was a trastee, 1832-55. He also. gave a tract of land to Wabash college and was a member of its first board of trustees, 1832-36. He afterward re- turned to Jefferson coimty and filled an unex- pired term in the state senate, but was twice defeated as a candidate for re-election. He was again elected to the bench of circuit court and held the office till the court was abolished. He was a prominent factor in the early settlement of Indiana and a promoter of the progress of the Presbyterian church in the new country. He died in Hanover, Ind., Nov. 11, 1854.

DUNNE, Edward Joseph, R.C. bishop, was born in Tipperary, Ireland, April 23, 1848. His parents brought him to America in 1849 and set- tled in Chicago, 111. He began his studies at the College of St. Mary's of the Lake, and when the students were stricken with cliolera he distin- guished himself as a nurse and helper among his classmates. He took his scholastic and theologi- cal course at the seminary of St. Francis de Sales, Milwaukee, Wi.s., and awaiting his arrival to canonical age for ordination, lie was sent to St. Mary's seminary, Baltimore, Md., and was finally ordained there June 29, 1871, bj' Bishop Becker. He served two churches in Chicago as a.ssistant, and in July, 1875, was appointed first pastor of the new parish of All Saints in that city. Here he built a schoolhouse, using jjart of it as a.