Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 
1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical 
Society.

D. L. CUNNINGHAM.  For more than a half century D. L. Cunningham has
been a prominent and successful business man of Williamstown and Grant 
County, taking part in the growth and the development of its resources 
of all things which have added to the attractiveness and been to the 
material advantage of this county.  Mr. Cunningham was born in the city 
of Louisville on the 22d day of August, 1833.  His parents shortly 
afterward moved to Lexington and he grew to manhood's estate in Fayette 
and Bourbon Counties.  He became a citizen of Williamstown in 1851, and 
immediately began his business career.  In 1853 he was united in 
marriage to Miss Rebecca Carder.  To this union ten children were born, 
seven boys and three girls.  He has resided in his present residence 
for almost fifty years, and there all of his children were born and 
have grown to manhood and womanhood's estate.  He erected the first 
brick flouring and carding mill built in Grant County, and for many 
years operated it himself.  In 1854 he was elected a Magistrate and 
served for four years, and in all has served more than ten years as a 
member of the town council.  Mr. Cunningham has been especially 
prominent in secret society work for more than forty years.  He is one 
of the oldest members of Centurion Lodge, and was one of the main 
movers in 1869-70 in building the Odd Fellows' Temple in Williamstown, 
and his prudence and foresight has in no small manner aided in building 
up the local branch of the order to its present splendid and wealthy 
condition. He has filled the office of Deputy Grand Master and Warden 
of the Grand Lodge.  He has also been connected in a prominent way with 
the Ancient Order of United Workmen.  Mr. Cunningham was one of the 
prime movers in the organization of the Williamstown Graded Free School,
and it was largely through his efforts that the original charter was 
granted by the Legislature.  He has always been a friend to education.  
Mr. Cunningham was one of the original stockholders in the Williamstown 
Cemetery company and the Bank of Williamstown.  During the war of the 
rebellion he was a strong Union man, and for nine months was a captain 
in the United States Army.  He is now a prominent Republican and an 
active worker in the local Grand Army post, and above and beyond all 
this he is a good and worthy citizen. 

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