BIOGRAPHY: Fred Stuart Dunham
From the A.T. Andreas Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, 1875

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FRED STUART DUNHAM was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on the 
19th day of December, 1832. 
 
His ancestry is of English and Scotch origin, and came to America before 
the Revolutionary War and settled in Connecticut. His father emigrated 
with his family to Pennsylvania when Mr. Dunham was but an infant one 
year of age. At the age of fourteen he moved to Iowa, where he arrived --
-, 1846. 
 
At the breaking out of the Rebellion he enlisted in the Union Army, 
enlisting as a private. He was promoted to lieutenant of Company L, 2d 
Iowa Cavalry  subsequently received a captain's commission - and after 
serving three and a half years he was honorably discharged. In 1865, at 
the expiration of his term of service, he moved to Monticello and opened 
a hardware store, in which business he still continues, commanding an 
extensive trade from the surrounding country. 
 
He married, in 1857, Phebe A. McCloy, daughter of Joseph and Phebe 
S. (Bellows) McCloy. She was a lineal descendant of Col. Benjamin 
Bellows, of Bellows Falls, New Hampshire, and was born Jan 18, 1839, 
at Dubuque, Iowa. When she was three years of age her parents moved 
to Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa, which has since been their home. 
She was sent to Massachusetts to be educated, returned to Iowa, and 
here for many years has been an energetic worker in the Temperance 
cause. 
 
Mrs. Dunham was appointed by the Iowa Board of Centennial Managers 
to gather group No. 27, "Photographs of Iowa Men and Women, and 
Iowa Scenery," and the wisdom of the board is exhibited in her 
appointment. She is an intelligent, energetic and efficient person, and 
will, without doubt, honor the position. 
 
The have the following family: 
I. MARY, born July 2, 1858. 
II. PHEBE N., born March 28, 1869. 
III. IMOGENE J., born September 15, 1871.