Mecosta-Ionia County MI Archives Biographies.....Dumon, Frank January 22, 1842 - 
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FRANK DUMON, Prosecuting Attorney of Mecosta County, residence Big Rapids, was 
born in Nissouri, Canada, 

Jan. 22, 1842.  His father, John F. Dumon, is a native of the Dominion, born 
Oct. 1, 1817, and is a farmer. 

 His mother was born feb. 23, 1823, in Cherry Valley, N.Y.  In 1847 his 
parents came to Michigan, and 

settled on a farm in the township of Otisco, Ionia Co., where they are still 
resident.

Mr. Dumon was his father's assstant until 20 years old, when he committed 
himself to the cause of the 

union.  He enlisted Aug. 8, 1862, at Otisco, in Co. B., 25th Mich. Vol. Inf., 
Capt. Samuel Demorest.  His 

command was attached to the Army of the Ohio, under Gen. Burnside, and 
afterward under Ge. Schofield.  He 

was under fire at Kingston, Knoxville and Mossy Creek, in the East Tennessee 
campaign; at Tunnel Hill in 

the Altoona Mountians; at Resaca, Dallas, New Hope Church, Lost Mountain, 
Kenesaw Mountian, at the crossing 

of the Decatur and Peach-Tree Creek, and Chattanooga River.  At the seige of 
Atlanta, July 22, 1864, he was 

severely wounded by a shot in the right side, and was sent to a field hospital 
near Marietta, Ga., and 

thence successively to the hospitals at Nashville, Tenn., Jeffersonville, 
Ind., St. Mary's and Harper's in 

Detroit.  He was discharged from the last June 7, 1865, and returned home to 
the farm with health so 

impaired that active life seemed forever relegated to the past.

In September, 1865, he went to Ann Arbor and entered the Law Department of the 
University of Michigan, 

completed the required course of two terms, and was graduated March 27, 1867.  
He spent the year following 

in the law office of Wells & Morse, at Ionia, and in April, 1868, came to Big 
Rapids, opened an office, and 

has since devoted himself to the zealous prosecution of his calling.

He was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Mecosta County in the fall of 1868, and 
re-elected two years later.  

In 1878 he was the candidate on the Greenback ticket for Attorney-General of 
Michigan, but the party being 

in a hopeless minority he was of course defeated.  In 1882 he was the 
successful candidate on the Fusion 

ticket, for the office of Prosecuting Attorney, and ran about 700 votes ahead 
of his ticket.  The 

popularity of Mr. Dumon is manifested by the election statistics.  He is 
successful in his career as a 

lawyer, and secures general favor by his genial manners and good companionship.

His office is in the Telfer block, on Michigan avenue; he owns his residence 
and two lots on Ives avenue.

He was married Feb. 25, 1869, to Jennie, daughter of Wendell and Jane Benster, 
of Sylvan, Washtenaw Co., 

Mich., where she was born May 24, 1849.  Their sons, Franklin G. and Frederick 
B. are both deceased.

Additional Comments:
1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co.

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