Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Dunn, Timothy 
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   TIMOTHY DUNN, one of the earliest settlers of Meeker county, made a preemption
claim on a part of section 3, Darwin township, in July, 1856, and upon that same
piece of land makes his home at the present. He was a native of County Tipperary,
Ireland, who had come to the free shores of America in 1847, landing at Hew York.
After a few days spent in the metropolis of the western world, he went up the Hudson
river to Rondout, Hew York, but a few weeks later came westward and settled at
Milwaukee, Wis., where he labored for five years. About that time the gold
excitement in California was at its height, and Mr. Dunn, then a young and vigorous
man, started for that land of the sunset and passed three years of his life in that
part of our country.

   Returning to the “States,” as it was termed in those days, Mr. Dunn then came to
Meeker county, as stated above. He was one of the first settlers of Darwin township,
and, it is believed, plowed the first furrow in that part of the county. His boy,
Edmund, who died in 1862, was the first death in the township. The first season that
Mr. Dunn was here he planted some potatoes, but says that the grasshoppers took them
about as fast as they showed above the ground.

   In August, 1862, Mr. Dunn was assisting in stacking grain at the Widow Powers’
place, when he heard of the cowardly murders at Acton and the first news of the
Indian outbreak. Leaving at once, he found, on reaching his own place, that a notice
was fastened upon the door of his cabin, warning him of his danger, and that the
Indians were up for mischief. He accordingly went to Forest City, and from there to
Kingston, where he remained some three weeks. Going on, finally, to Minneapolis, he
there remained until October following, when he returned to his farm. hie found
everything destroyed here, and had to commence forthwith to rebuild his place as
from the very beginning.

   Mr. Dunn was married July 4, 1861, to Miss Mary A. Deavey, who became the mother
of nine children, all of whom are dead but two. The family are devotedly attached to
the Roman Catholic Church, and fulfill their proper duties. In politics Mr. Dunn is
a steady, warm-hearted democrat, and a good citizen.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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