BIO:  DUNN, Eli H. s/o Joseph & Mary (Hawkins) Dunn

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

DUNN   HAWKINS   STEEN	

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co.  1886

Knox County, Steen Twp., page 553

ELI H. DUNN, farmer and stock raiser, is a son of Joseph and Mary (Hawkins)
Dunn, and was born in Knox County, Ind., February 19, 1831.  The father was
a native of Kentucky and the mother of Indiana.  Our subject's paternal
grandfather was Samuel Dunn, who came to Knox County, Ind., in 1811.  He and
his son Joseph were farmers by occupation, and experienced many of the
privations incident to pioneer life.  Our subject's father removed to
Daviess County shortly after marriage, and here the father died.  Eli H.
was a mere child when his father removed to Daviess County.  He was reared
on a farm, and at the age of sixteen began working at the carpenter's trade,
and after attaining his majority worked at this trade exclusively until 1856,
when he removed to Steen Township, this county, and began farming.  He and
S.L. Dunn rented a farm in partnership, continuing together until the spring
of 1868 when he began to farm by himself and has met with excellent success.
He owns 600 acres of land, the most of it well improved.  It represents his
own industry and hard work.  In 1868 it was a wilderness, but he has reduced
it to a fine state of cultivation, and he now ranks among the first men of
the county as a farmer and stock raiser.  He is one of the very few men who
can say he never spent 5 cents for liquor, or who was never under its
influence.  He is a stanch Republican and a worthy member of the Masons.  Mr.
Dunn was married April 21, 1868, to Miss Malissa E. Steen, born January 8,
1830, daughter of John and Ruth Steen, who was one of the very early settlers
of Knox County.  Mr. and Mrs. Steen are the parents of these two children:
Ruth C. and John.  They are also members of the Presbyterian Church.
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