Grundy-Bureau County IL Archives Biographies.....Dunteman, Henry 1829 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deb Haines ddhaines@gmail.com February 20, 2006, 3:24 am Author: George B Harrington Among the honored residents of Bureau county that Germany has furnished to the new world is numbered Henry Dunteman, who was for many years actively identified with the agricultural interests of the county but for the past decade has lived retired, though still residing upon his farm on section 15, Selby township. He was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1829, and is a son of Henry Dunteman, Sr., a very successful man, who engaged in farming and also owned and operated a large mill. The father took part in the war against Napoleon on the British side, Hanover then being under English protection. He never came to America but five of his eight sons became residents of the United States and two of the number are still living, these being Henry, of this review, and Ernest, who is also living retired in Selby township. Henry Dunteman, Jr., spent the first sixteen years of his life in his native land and from the age of six until fourteen he attended the public school, after which he was bound out for two years to learn the joiner's trade. On coming to the United States in 1846, he first located in New York state, managing a cooperage there for about a year, and in 1847 went to Chicago but soon afterward located at Wilmington, Illinois, where he spent a few weeks. He next worked for some time at Morris, this state, and was later employed on a contract at Depue, having made his home in Bureau county since 1849. He accompanied his employer on the latter's removal to Princeton, where he worked for several months, and subsequently was employed on the farm of Benjamin Newell for two years. In 1851 Mr. Dunteman was married and began farming on his own account, first purchasing forty acres of land with the money he had saved from his earnings. A year later he sold that tract and bought one hundred and sixty acres on section 15, Selby township, a part of which he still owns. As time has passed he has made many useful and substantial improvements to his place and successfully engaged in its operation until about ten years ago, when he retired from active farming and now rents his land. Mr. Dunteman was married in 1851 to Miss Almeda Long, who was born in Greene county, Ohio, in 1829, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Long, who came to Bureau county in 1842, locating in Selby township, where they made their home until their deaths some years ago. They had a large family hut only three are now living, namely: Mrs. Dunteman; Mrs. Piper and Mrs. Andrew Walton, of Selby township. Mr. and Mrs. Dunteman have reared three children, all born in Bureau county: John, now a farmer of Selby township, who married Lizzie Fooney and had one daughter, now deceased; Cherry, who is at home with her parents; and B. N., also a farmer of Selby township, who married Melissa Hosier and has eight children. During the Civil war Mr. Dunteman was drafted and hired a substitute, paying eight hundred dollars. By his ballot he has supported the republican party since its organization and has taken quite an active interest in local affairs, efficiently serving as justice of the peace for twenty-four years and as road commissioner fifteen years. Fraternally he is connected with the Masonic lodge at Princeton and he attends the Congregational church though reared in the Lutheran faith. He is a man highly respected and esteemed by all who know him and deserves great credit for the success that he has achieved in life, his prosperity coming as a direct reward for his own unaided efforts. Source: "Past and Present of Bureau County, Illinois", by George B. Harrington, A.M. Chicago: The Pioneer Publishing Company, 1900, Pages 510-511 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/grundy/bios/dunteman137nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 4.3 Kb