Duval County FlArchives Biographies.....Dunn, Joseph R. December 23, 1868 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.112  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present

        JOSEPH RICHARD DUNN is one of the successful and influential 
representatives of the real estate business in the City of Jacksonville, where 
he maintains his office headquarters in the Graham Building. He is a scion of a 
family that was founded in Virginia in the Colonial period of our national 
history, and takes pride in reverting to the Old Dominion State as the place of 
his nativity, his birth having occurred at Glade Spring, Virginia, December 23, 
1868. He is a son of WILLIAM ANSLEY DUNN and SUSAN (LYON) DUNN, both natives of 
Washington County, that state, where both were born in the year 1833, the death 
of the mother having occurred in 1876 and that of the father in 1901. Of their 
family of four sons and five daughters two died in infancy, and one son and 
three daughters are now living. WILLIAM A. DUNN became a passenger train 
conductor on the North Carolina Railroad prior to the Civil war, and during the 
war period he was engaged in collecting food supplies for the railway employees 
in behalf of railway service in connection with the operations of the 
Confederate military forces. After the war Mr. Dunn was engaged in farm 
enterprise in his native county until 1877, when he removed to California and 
engaged in farming and fruit-growing near Santa Rosa, Sonora County, where he
passed the remainder of his life. He was a democrat, was affiliated with the
Masonic fraternity, and both he and his wife were members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South.
	JOSEPH R. DUNN attended the public schools at Palatka, Florida, and 
also the East Florida Seminary, at Gainesville, an institution now known as the 
Florida State College. He had located in Palatka in 1880, and there he was 
employed in the general merchandise store of his older brother, JOHN T., until 
1889, when he engaged independently in the same line of enterprise at Palatka, 
Putnam County. He developed a prosperous business, and continued the same until 
1899, when he sold out and came to Jacksonville, where he has since been 
actively engaged in real estate operations, his business being one of extensive 
and important order. In 1909 he here organize the Dinsmore Company, of which he 
is secretary and general manager. This company acquired 7,000 acres of land 
contiguous to Jacksonville, and this property has been subdivided into ten-acre
farms. Mr. Dunn has erected many houses in and around Jacksonville, and has
made valuable contributions to the civic and material progress of the city and
county. He is vice president of the Jacksonville Real Estate Board, and is a
member of the Seminole Club, and in politics is loyally aligned in the ranks of
the democratic party.
	June 6, 1894, recorded the marriage of Mr. Dunn and Miss LAURA BENET 
TEASDALE, who was born and reared at Palatka, Florida, a daughter of HENRY R. 
and ESTANISLADA (BENET) TEASDALE. Mr. Teasdale was born at St. Mary’s, Georgia, 
and was seventy-six years of age at the time of his death. His wife was born at 
St. Augustine, Florida, and was sixty-five years of age at the time of her 
death. Of their nine children two sons and three daughters attained to years of 
maturity. Mr. Teasdale served as major in the Dickenson Regiment, a Florida 
command in the Confederate Army during the Civil war, and in after years he was 
actively affiliated with the United Confederate Veterans. Mr. and Mrs. Dunn 
have four children: HENRY T., RICHARD P., MARION L. and ROBERT JOSEPH. HENRY T. 
DUNN graduated from Princeton University is a member of the class of 1917, and 
in the World war. He was in service as a member of the Marine Aviation Corps. 
He is now manager of the representative stock and bond concern of the Harris & 
Forbes Company at Washington, D. C.  RICHARD P. DUNN was a student in Princeton 
University at the time when the nation became involved in the World war, and he 
enlisted in the United States Navy. In this connection he entered the Cloyne
Naval School at Newport, Road Island, and in the same he was graduated as an
ensign in 1918, and returned to Princeton University, graduating with the class
of 1919. He is now associated with the same stock and bond concern as is his
older brother, in the capacity of southern representative for the firm. MARION
L., the third son, is a student in the high school, and ROBERT J. is attending
the graded schools of Jacksonville.


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