L. D. Dunn

biography

Dunn, L. D., undertaker and liveryman, Meadville, was born in Hayfield Township, this county, July 7, 1832, and is a son of Simeon and Eliza (Comp­ton) Dunn, the father being of French and Scotch descent, coming to Hayfield Township in 1794, from Fayette County, Penn. The mother was a native of this county and of English descent. Our subject’s grandfather, James Dunn, was a land agent and farmed here from 1794 to his death. Simeon Dunn, our subject’s father, was a farmer, a soldier in the war of 1812; he raised a



family of seven—five boys and two girls—all now residents of this county. The fifth son settled in Nashville. Tenn., at the close of the war, and died there October 19, 1884. L. D. Dunn, our subject, the fourth son, was educated in the common schools. He farmed until 1870, then kept store at Coon’s Corners until 1876, when be came to this city and embarked in his present business. He was married in 1853 to Mary E., daughter of Dr. Hiram Boyd, the latter a resident of Crawford County for over fifty years. They have three children: Ettie, wife of Byron De Forest; H. E., a dentist in Coshocton; Mary, wife of D. D. Malroy. Mr. and Mrs. Dunn are members of the Christodelphian Church; in politics he is a Republican.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 734.