Gunnison County CO Archives Biographies.....Dunn, Frank April 7, 1871 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Frank Dunn, living four miles from Doyle, on a ranch which he has improved

and fertilized to a great extent since he purchased it, is one of the

enterprising young farmers and stock men of Gunnison county who are the stay of

her present and the hope of her future prosperity.  Mr. Dunn is a native of

Hardin county, Iowa, where he was born on April 7, 1871, and where he lived with

his parents, John and Malinda A. (Hyatt) Dunn, until he reached the age of

fourteen when they moved to Kansas.  His father was a native of Illinois and

moved to Iowa when he was twenty-three years old.  There he worked at his trade

as a carpenter until 1885, then sought a new home wherein his hopes might expand

and flourish in Kansas, settling in the northwestern part of the state.  He

lived there to the end of his days, dying in 1890, at the age of seventy-three.

 His wife, an Indianian by birth, is still living at Gunnison, Colorado, at the

age of sixty-seven.  They were the parents of five children, Frank being the

second in the order of birth and the oldest son.  His education was begun in the

schools of Iowa and completed in those of Kansas.  At the age of nineteen he

came to Colorado, and, locating in Gunnison county, bought the farm which has

since been his home, and which represents in its high state of improvement and

cultivation, and in the prosperous and vigorous stock industry he has built up

on it, the labor and skill of his subsequent years and the progressiveness and

breadth of view he exhibits in all enterprises to which he gives his active

attention.  The principal feature of his stock production is a high grade of

Shorthorn cattle which are well bred and well cared for, and which have a

deservedly secure and strong hold on the confidence and approval of breeders in

his section of the county and elsewhere where they are known.  His efforts to

bring and keep them up to a high standard have stimulated others to the same

aspiration and have aided in realizing it, so that he has been a direct and

positive benefit to the community in the improvement of its stock.  He has also

given a close and intelligent attention to the public affairs of the county, and

having selected this part of the country as his permanent home, has a patriotic

and active interest in its welfare in every way, which he exhibits by a

substantial and helpful support of every good undertaking for its advancement or

improvement.  Although an active participant in political affairs, he is by no

means a self-seeking or ambitious partisan, but approaches public questions with

a view to the general good rather than from a desire to immediately promote his

own advantage.  He belongs to the Republican party, and gives its principles and

candidates his allegiance and support.  In the fall of 1893 he was united in

marriage with Miss Edna Hardman, a daughter of Henry Hardman.  Their union has

been blessed with four children, Emma, Harry, Oscar and Georgia.  

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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