Obituary of Alfred Allen Dunk, Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michian

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CALLED AND GONE
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Alfred Allen Dunk, the Well-Known Duggist, has Paid the Great debt -
Brief Account of his Life and Illness.
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At the hour of five o'clock last evening another of our prominent and
respected citizens was called away, and sorrow and mourning rest upon 
his family and the community.

Alfred Allen Dunk was born in Syracuse, N.Y., in the year 1846.  Arrived
at the age of maturity he entered the drug business, receiving his 
education in the well known house of Brownell & Stocking. He spent a short
time in Buffalo and came to this city in September, 1865, purchasing the
stock of L. Simoneau, who was in business in the location at present
occupied, corner of Genesee and Washington avenues.  He has carried on
business there continuously, except after the great fire which destroyed 
the Crouse block, returning as soon as the Hoyt block was completed.  Mr.
Dunk united with the Baptist church at the age of 17, and remained a 
communicant to his death.  About six years ago he married the oldest 
daughter of Hon. John G. Owen of this city, and his family consists of his 
wife and two boys.  Mr. Dunk is the last survivor of three sons, and his 
beside was surrounded by his wife and children, his father, sister, 
stepmother and two half sisters.

For the last two or three years Mr. Dunk has suffered from frequent and 
sudden attacks of illness, supposed to be of a billious nature, and it was 
not until recently that this true situation was understood to be accumulation 
of sediment or stones in the gall bladder, and it was stoppage of the ducts 
by these that brought on the inflamation which terminated his life.  

Mr. Dunk was in all respects an upright and estimable man; energetic, 
close, methodic and successful in business, a kind friend and relative
and a Christian gentleman, and his loss is a public calamity.  The
annoucement of the funeral will be made hereafter.

Published in the Saginaw ? Herald, Dec 11, 1879
Note: Alfred Allen Dunk had a son Alfred Owen Dunk and a daughter
Mary Rust Dunk, not two boys as reported in his obituary.




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