Butler County AlArchives Biographies.....Dunklin, Daniel G. 1823 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  DANIEL G. DUNKLIN, prominent Merchant and Planter, was born at Greenville,
Ala., October 28, 1823, and his parents were James and Catharine (Lee) Dunklin,
the former a native of South Carolina and the latter of Leesburg, N. C.

  James Dunklin came to Alabama in 1818, and was among the first (if not the
very first) settlers at where now stands the town of Greenville. He became an
extensive planter, was one of the commissioners that laid out the town of
Greenville, and was afterward commissioner of the county. He died in Greenville
in 1828.

  Daniel G. Dunklin, during his youth, acquired such learning as was possible at
the neighboring schools, attending perhaps three months out of the year. As will
be seen he was only four years of age at the time of his father's death. At the
age of fourteen years in a dry goods house at Montgomery, he received his first
employment as a clerk, and he remained with that concern seven years. He was
twenty-one years of age when he engaged in the mercantile business at Montgomery
on his own account. He remained there two years, came to Greenville, and
established himself in the mercantile business. Here he has been one of the most
successful merchants; he has devoted his time to his business, and has
accumulated a competency. Prior to the war he owned a large number of slaves,
was extensively interested in planting, and had standing out on interest a large
amount. It is not necessary to add that the war swept away this immense fortune,
for that was but the common lot of a great many.

  During the four years of the war, Mr. Dunklin was in the Quartermaster's
Department of the Confederate States, and afterwards engaged in mercantile
business again at Greenville. He has succeeded in regaining largely his lost
estate. He is now one of the most extensive farmers in Butler County, producing
annually many bales of cotton, and giving particular attention to the breeding
of stock. He has probably the finest stock farm and vineyard in this section. He
is one of Greenville's most respected citizens, noted for his kind-heartedness,
liberality and public-spiritedness.

  He was married January 19, 1847, to Miss Susan C. Burnett, of Greenville, Ala.
She died in 1861, leaving one child, Walter J. January 12, 1864, Mr. Dunklin
married Miss Hanna Patton, of Greenville. Ala., and has had born to him one son,
Patton B. The family belong to the Episcopal Church, and Mr. Dunklin is a member
of the Masonic fraternity and of the I. O. O. F.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
TIMBER BELT.


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