Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Dungan, Wallace
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Doylestown A-L


WALLACE DUNGAN tallow manufacturer, P.O. Doylestown, was 
born in Doylestown township, July 8, 1845, and is a son of 
Isaac and Rebecca (Boos) Dungan, natives of Bucks county.  
Jesse Dungan, grandfather of Wallace, still lives (aged 86) 
in Bristol township, having all his life been a farmer, 
until a few years ago, when he retired.  His son, father of 
Wallace, has also been a farmer during most of his life.  He 
was twice married, the children of the first marriage being 
Wallace and Mahlon H.; and by the second, Willie, and three 
deceased.  Our subject remained at home until twenty-two 
years ago, when he was married and began farming in 
Southampton township.  During an interval of five years he 
farmed in the latter township, in Hatboro, Montgomery 
county, and in Doylestown, after which he started in the 
hide and tallow business, and subsequently moved over the 
borough line in the south end, and built a factory, which he 
run for eight years with great success.  On June 29, 1880, 
the factory was burned.  In 1877 he bought the place where 
he now lives, and in 1878 built the house.  In 1880 he built 
the new factory, which is equipped with steam and all 
machinery necessary to the business.  The buildings are all 
of brick, the factory being fire-proof, with a boiler-house 
twenty-eight by fourteen feet.  Mr. Dungan does an extensive 
business.  He was married February 21, 1867, to Rachel 
Heaton, by whom he has one child, Effie F.   Mr. Dungan and 
his wife are members of the Baptist church. He is also a 
member of the Lodge No. 193, Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows, and of the Red Men.  Mr. Dungan is one of the 
enterprising and progressive citizens of Bucks county.