Meriwether County GaArchives Biographies.....J.D. Dunn  1828 -  Unknown
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Author: Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 1895

Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895
Page 506

J. D. Dunn

J. D. Dunn, a prosperous farmer, and a man of remarkable mechanical talent and 
skill, is a native of Meriwether county, in which he was born in 1828; his 
parents, William and Beddy (Johnston) Dunn, having settled in this county the 
preceding year. Here his father, who was born in Jones county, Ga., in 1800, 
built what is known as the Greeneville road. He was the son of Alexander and 
Beddy (O’Neal) Dunn, the former a native of Maryland and a soldier of the 
revolutionary war, who, after residing in Jones county for a considerable 
time, removed to Chambers county, Ala., where he passed the closing years of 
his life. The wife of William Dunn was the daughter of David Johnston, an 
early settler of Jasper county, Ga. The son, J.D. Dunn, was reared upon the 
farm, with the few advantages for education of that early period. In 1850 he 
moved into Woodbury, Meriwether Co., where he, having learned the trade of 
carriage and buggy making, engaged in that business. In 1861 he enlisted in 
the militia under Capt. Frank Strozier, and was elected adjutant. After the 
war Mr. Dunn returned to his business in Woodbury, and has a large 
establishment and thriving trade – carriage building. He is also a skillful 
house carpenter, and has done some marvelously fine work in that line. The 
Robert E. Lee institute at Thomaston, Upson Co., now a college of considerable 
note, is a monument of his mechanical skill. Mr. Dunn is a man of varied 
talents; he has been justice of the peace for eighteen years, winning the 
esteem of all with whom he has been concerned; has been a member of the 
democratic executive committee for the past two years, and withal has found 
time to oversee the affairs of his large and beautiful farm in the vicinity of 
Woodbury, and prove himself a practical farmer. He is a member of the Odd 
Fellows, and the Masonic fraternity. In 1848 Mr. Dunn married Miss Catherine 
F. Findley, daughter of Riley and Catherine (Oliver) Findley, who were early 
settlers of this county, in which Mrs. Dunn was born Dec. 14, 1831. Mr. Dunn 
and his wife are both active members of the Missionary Baptist church; they 
were blessed with two children: John D. and Kittie P. On Jan. 5, 1891, Mr. 
Dunn was bereft of his wife by death.



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