| William Dunn |
| William Dunn, post
office Rossville, owns 106 acres of land valued at $30
per acre. He was born in what was then known as Virginia
but now West, Virginia, Monongahela County, in 1817, and
was reared as a farmer. He was married to Miss Verlinda
Warman in 1840. She died in 1843. He was again married to
Miss Mary McShane in 1846. He immigrated to Iowa, 1851,
stopping in Clayton County till the spring of 1852, when
he located on his present farm, it then being a
wilderness inhabited by wild animals, game, etc. He had
two children by his first wife, Temperance and infant,
deceased; and by his second wife six children, Isabel M.,
Dorcas, Jane S., Virginia, Leroy and Martha, the two
latter deceased. pg 484-485 |