John Robert DUNN

1832 - 1908  (76 years)

• Name	John Robert DUNN  [1]
  Born	22 Jan 1832	, Robertson, Tennessee, USA   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	20 Apr 1908	, , Tennessee, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I13825	An Armstrong & A Heffernan
  Last Modified	28 Sep 2014

  
  

  Father	John Johnston DUNN,   b. 3 Sep 1803, , Robertson, Tennessee, USA ,   d. Bef 1893  (Age 89 years)
  Mother	Mary CARTER,   b. 3 Nov 1805, , , Tennessee, USA ,   d. 23 Jan 1888, , Robertson, Tennessee, USA  (Age 82 years)
  Married	15 Dec 1825	, , Tennessee, USA   [3]
  Family ID	F5252	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  "Biographical Appendix to the History of Robertson County", The Goodspeed Publishing Co., Nashville TN, 1887 [1142-1145] John R. Dunn, M. D., of Turnersville, Tenn., was born January 22, 1832, and is the younger of the two sons and eight daughters of John and Mary (Carter) Dunn. The father was of Irish descent born in 1803. He was a farmer and was married in 1824. In 1873 they broke up housekeeping and lived among their children. The father died in 1883. The mother was born in 1805 and is now living with our subject, who received his literary education in the country schools. When about twenty years of age he began studying medicine under Dr. J. M. Thurston, and at the end of eight months entered the medical department of the [p.1145] University of Nashville, graduating in 1855. He then located in Turnersville and has since practiced his profession in that place. December 4, 1856, he married Emma E. Menees, daughter of Benjamin W. and Elizabeth Menees. Mrs. Dunn was born November 31, 1836, and has borne one child: John W., born in 1858, who is now practicing medicine with his father. He graduated in the medical department of the Vanderbilt University in 1880, and in the same department of the Nashville University in 1881. October 22, 1884, he married Ellen J. Allesworth, born in 1861. They have one child, Ellen E. Dr. Dunn, our subject, is one of the leading physicians of Robertson County, and his son, John, is following in his footsteps. The Doctor is a Democrat and a member of the Masonic fraternity. He and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

  
  

• Sources

  [S151] Biographical Appendix to the History of Robertson County, (The Goodspeed Publishing Co, Nasville, TN, 1887), 1142-1145. [S151] Biographical Appendix to the History of Robertson County, (The Goodspeed Publishing Co, Nasville, TN, 1887). [S365] It's All Relative, Piper, Katrina M, (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=kmp243&id=I00571).