- FREDERICK C. DUNN, is a senior member of one of the most
prosperous mercantile firms of
- Milton, Rock county, a thriving business largely the creation
of its present owners. Mr. DUNN has amply attested his ability
and standard as a business man, his clean-cut methods and sterling
integrity winning for him the lifelong respect and friendship
of many friends.
- Our subject was born in New Market, Middlesex Co., N.J.,
June 16, 1850, son of Martin and
- Margaret (AYERS) DUNN, both natives of New Jersey. The paternal
grandfather, Joseph DUNN, was also a native of New Jersey, where
he lived, a prosperous farmer, to the age of seventy-two years,
and died leaving two sons. The maternal grandfather of our subject,
Joshua AYERS, was for many years a resident of New York, near
Lake George, also in Schenectady county, and at Boyleston. Martin
DUNN, the father of Frederick C., was a lifelong farmer in his
native State. He died in May, 1884, and his wife survived him
three years, passing away at the age of sixty-seven years. Both
were devout members of the Seventh-Day Baptist Church, and in
the community in which he lived Martin DUNN was a man of prominence,
holding various local offices, and possessing the good-will and
esteem of his friends and neighbors. Of his four children, two
survive: Ellis J., of New Market, N.J.; and Frederick C., our
subject.
- Frederick C. DUNN was reared on the New Jersey homestead,
and received a good common-
- school education. He left the farm at the age of eighteen,
in 1868, to engage in carpenter work. Four years later he came
to Milton, Wis., and for two years was a student at Milton College.
Returning to New Jersey, he taught school during portions of
three years, then, in partnership with his brother, Ellis J.,
he went into the general merchandise business at New Market,
continuing thus until 1881. In that year they sold out, and Frederick
C. returned to Milton, Wis. For six years he worked for his father-in-law,
Robert WILLIAMS, in 1887 opening a clothing store in the adjoining
store room. In 1891 Mr. DUNN erected his present store building,
and three years later admitted to partnership George R. BOSS.
They purchased the interest of Mr. WILLIAMS, and have since then
most successfully conducted a general store under the firm name
of DUNN, BOSS & Co.
- Mr. DUNN married, June 5, 1879, Miss Flora E. WILLIAMS, daughter
of Robert and Martha
- (DODGE) WILLIAMS, and seven children have been born to them:
Clarence W., Mabel, Eleanor M., Charles Ellis, Margaret, Gladys,
and one who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. DUNN and their older
children are members of the Seventh-Day Baptist Church. In politics
Mr. DUNN is a Republican.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c)1901, p. 454.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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