Bio: John M. Dunn, Claiborne Parish, LA
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Jan. 2000


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John M. Dunn is a planter of Ward 2, of Claiborne Parish, La., but was born in
Howard County, Mo., in 1833, being the youngest of nine children born to James
and Martha (Morrison) Dunn, native Kentuckians, the birth of the former
occurring about 1800.  He was a son of James Dunn, who was born in Ireland,
but who came to America in an early day.  John M. Dunn received a good
common-school education in Benton County, Mo., and on starting out in life for
himself began following that calling to which he had been reared-that of
farming and stock trading.  He has accumulated a good competency and was in
good circumstances until Fremont's army reached his place, when they destroyed
a great deal of valuable property and drove off his stock, leaving him badly
crippled, financially.  In 1864 he went to California, where he followed
mining until 1866, then for some time was engaged in lumbering in Nevada,
after which he visited Mexico, following mining here also.  He was in Mexico
at the time Maximilian undertook to establish his government in that country. 
From this country he returned to Missouri, and after remaining there until
1868 he came to Claiborne Parish, La., where he has become the owner of a fine
plantation of 600 acres, about 300 acres of which are under cultivation and
devoted to the usual products of the South.  Politically he has at all times
affiliated with the Democrat party.  He is a happy old bachelor, who has the
respect and good will of all who know him.

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