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A PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF DELAWARE AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES, IND.
A.W. Bowen & Co. 1894

        ROBERT DUNN, senior member of the firm of Dunn Lime & Sewer Pipe
company, contractors for plastering and wholesale and retail dealers in
lime, hair, cement, plaster of paris, fire brick, fire clay, etc., is one
of the representative business men of Muncie, and a highly respected
citizen of Delaware county. He was born October 11, 1830, in Abbeville
district, S.C., the son of James and Bethome (Evans) Dunn. The father was a
farmer, which vocation he carried on in his native state in connection with
shoemaking, and later in Fayette county, Ind., where he moved in 1832,
settling near the town of Connersville, In 1833 he moved to Rush county,
this state, where he resided for two years, and then became a resident of
the county of Hancock, where he made his home until 1846, at which time he
located in Marion county, where his wife's death occurred in 1847.
Subsequently he removed to Indianapolis, where he resided for a limited
period, and then returned to his farm in Marion county, but did
no long remain there, moving, within about one year, to the southern part
of the state, and eventually returning to the county of Fayette. In 1851 he
went back to his native state, South Carolina, and after a few years
residence there, returned to Fayette county, in the year 1858. His second
wife was Polly Simms. James Dunn was the father of eight children, namely:
Elizabeth J., deceased; Robert, whose name introduces this sketch; James
R., deceased; Nancy, who lives in Chicago; Martha G., deceased; Andrew J.,
of Indianapolis; William Thomas, deceased, and George, a citizen of Marion
county, Ind.
        Robert Dunn, the second of the above children, was reared on a farm
until 1848, at which time he began learning the trade of plastering in
Indianapolis, and with the exception of two years spent in farming in Rush
county, has followed that avocation ever since. He became a resident of
Muncie in the year 1888, and now does a very extensive and lucrative
business as a plasterer, besides dealing very largely in the articles
enumerated in the introduction of this sketch - his place on west Dumont
street being one of the well known business houses of the city. Mr. Dunn
has been twice married; the first time, in August 1850, to Miss Martha Day,
who was born in Marion county, this state, in 1830, the daughter of Mark
and Elizabeth Day, of Ohio. To this union were born five children: William
L., associated with his father; Mary A., Richard W., also his father's
associate; Harvey E. of Muncie, and George E., who works at the tailoring
business. The mother of these children, a most exc
ellent christian woman, and for many years a member of the Methodist
church, died in the year 1869. In 1870 Mr Dunn married his present wife,
Mrs. Eliza J. Wolfe, of Rushville, Ind. Mr. Dunn is a republican in
politics and fraternally belongs to the I.O.O.F. Since his removal from
Rushville to Muncie in the year above noted, he has succeeded in building
up a large and lucrative business, and as a skilled workman he has been
extensively employed in the city and throughout the country. He is one of
the substantial citizens of Delaware county, and in a modest way has
contributed his full share toward its development and prosperity.


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