Biographical Sketch of E. J. Dunford, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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E. J. Dunford, proprietor of hotel, Contrary Lake, was born in Burke
County, Georgia, February 15, 1827.  He had limited educational ad-
vantages in Georgia and Florida.  He moved to Alabama, and clerked 
in a dry goods store for three years.  In 1852, he emigrated to 
Missouri, and settled in Buchanan County, and followed farming for
nineteen years.  He married Miss Phebe Ogle, in 1855.  Mrs. Dunford
died in 1869, leaving four children: A. Josephine, Edward, Ida and
Lizzie.  He was again married in 1870, to Mary Shields, a native of
Indiana.  By this marriage there are two children, Willie and George.
Mr. Dunford is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a School 
Director.  In 1871, he built the Lake Shore House, a large frame
structure, with ample stabling in connection.  He also keeps boats,
fishing tackle, minnows and all the paraphernalia necessary for
pleasure seekers, and at reasonable prices.  He has made his house
a popular place of resort by his genial and affiable disposition,
and is always anticipating the wants of his guests.  During the 
flood of 1881, he lost 150 tons of ice, and sustained other damages,
in all amounting to at least fifteen hundred dollars.  Water stood
one foot deep on the lower floor; had to move everything up stairs.
The door yard and fields were one broad sheet of water, all around
looking like an angry river.

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