BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.


Page 515.


SAMUEL DUNN - One of the prominent early settlers of Belmont county was
Samuel Dunn, who was born February 15, 1805, in Maryland. After coming to
Belmont county he took a contract on the construction of the National pike,
and after the completion of his work contracted for the supply of material
for the repair of the road, and was overseer of a gang of men until 1850.
He then settled in Goshen township, and purchased a farm of 108 acres two
miles south of Belmont, where he passed the remainder of his days, dying
in 1857. He married Catherine Vail and they had seven children: Nancy,
wife of John W. Fields, a large farmer of Logan county, Kas.; Mary, wife
of Joseph Henderson, of West Virginia; Jemima, deceased; Samuel, deceased;
Huldah, wife of Robert W. Bone; Taylor, deceased; and Stephen. Stephen Dunn
is now one of the prominent citizens of Goshen township. He was born in
Union township, November 4, 1838, and was reared as a farmer, which is his
present occupation. During the war he engaged in buying horses for the
government, and afterward he was occupied for eighteen years in shipping
stock and in the meat trade. He then bought his farm of forty-five acres
and has added to it until he now has a well-improved property of 120 acres.
He was married to Louisa Jane Hedges, who was born October 15, 1840, the
daughter of Darius Hedges, and his wife, Harriet Casey. Mr. Dunn has seven
children living: Charles, who married Estella Graham; Etta, wife of Jesse
Ramsey; Harry, a jeweler of Wheeling; Archie, Alva, Daisy and Olive. Mrs.
Dunn died March 16, 1885. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church,
of which he has been steward, classleader and exhorter, and is now district
class-leader, and has been an Odd Fellow since 1864, and has passed the
chairs of Belmont lodge, No. 277.