| CharlesN. Dunn |
CHARLES N. DUNN, a successful farmer andstock-raiser of Beardstown, was born here and has always lived on thisfarm. His father was John Dunn, of Cornwall, England, born in 1822. Hegrew up in his native country as a farmer boy and with his brother Lukecame to the United States in the ’40s, on a sailing vessel from Liverpooland landed in New York and came from there to Beardstown. Soon afterwardhe came out to his present location where he purchased 160 acres of wildland, which is now owned by his son. On this place John Dunn began lifeas a young single man and here made farming a success. He was marriedto Caroline Treadway, who was born in Maryland, but had come to Cass countywhen young, as her parents were old settlers. They soon accumulated 320acres of fine land in what is known as the Sangamon bottoms and here JohnDunn died in 1877, aged fifty-five years. His wife survived until 1885,when she died, aged seventy-two years. She was a noble, good woman andthe best of neighbors. Mr. Dunn was an honest man and both he and his wifewere highly esteemed members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.Charles Dunn is the youngest of a familyof eight children, four of whom are yet living, Mary Paschal, now livingin Morgan county; Sarah Kuhlman, living near Virginia, this county; William,a farmer in Butler county, Kansas; and Charles, who has never been married.He is a sound Republican of good habits and sound principles. He has beena very successful farmer and stock-raiser and now owns a fine farm of 160acres, well improved and with a fine set of farm buildings. The place hasbeen his own for fifteen years, and is where he was born and resides.
Biographical Review of Cass, Schuylerand Brown Counties, Illinois, Biographical Review Publishing Co., Chicago,1892, pages 136-137.
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