Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Allen County. GEORGE H. DUNN was born in Allen County, Ky., July 2, 1857. He is the eldest of four sons and four daughters born to John A. and Jane E. (Caruth) Dunn. His early life was passed on the farm and he attended the common schools where he received a fair education, which he afterward improved by a rigid course of home study. At the age of twenty-one years he engaged in the profession of teaching, which he followed six years. In politics he is a Democrat, and in the political affairs of his county takes a special interest. He holds the office of deputy sheriff of Allen County, to which he was appointed on the 4th of January, 1885. He is a member of Loving Lodge, No. 323, of the order of Masonry and is a Master Mason. He is a son of John A. Dunn, of Allen County, Ky., who was born May 3, 1832, and during his lifetime followed the vocation of a farmer with uniform success. He has resided all his life on the same farm which was occupied by his father before him. His married with Jane E. Caruth, the daughter of Thomas Caruth, occurred on the 11th of March, 1856. They are the parents of eight children: George H., Thomas C., Margaret B., Edith M., John A., Cull E., Charles W. and Lucy A. The maternal grandfather of our subject was Thomas Caruth, a native of North Carolina. He was a soldier in the war of 1812; died in Allen County, Ky., in the year 1867, aged seventy-five years. Caruth Dunn = NC http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/allen/dunn.gh.txt