Louisiana AHGP

Part of the American History and Genealogy Project

John M. Dunn

John M. Dunn is a planter of Ward 2, of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, but was born in Howard County, Missouri, in 1833, being the youngest of nine children born to James and Martha (Morrison) Dunn, native Kentuckians, the birth of the former occurring about 1800. He was a son of James Dunn, who was born in Ireland, but who came to America in an early day. John M. Dunn received a good common-school education in Benton County, Missouri, and on starting out in life for himself began following that calling to which he had been reared at that of farming and stock trading. He had accumulated a good competency and was in good circumstances until Fremont's army reached his place, when they destroyed a great deal of valuable property and drove off his stock, leaving him badly crippled, financially.

In 1804 he went to California, where he followed miffing until 1806, then for some time was engaged in lumbering in Nevada, after which he visited Mexico, following mining here also. He was in Mexico at the time Maximilian undertook to establish his government in that country. From this country he returned to Missouri, and after remaining there until 1868 he came to Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, where he has become the owner of a fine plantation of 600 acres, about 300 acres of which are under cultivation and devoted to the usual products of the South. Politically he has at all times affiliated with the Democrat party. He is a happy old bachelor, who has the respect and goodwill of fill who know him.

Biographical Sketches| Claiborne Parish

Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, Southern Publishing Company, 1890