Researching George Dunn
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The name George means "A Tiller of the Soil or a Farmer" and is of Greek origin.
Records of George Dunn on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for George Dunn and the Dunn Family Tree
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Some Famous People called George Dunn
George Hedford Dunn
George Hedford Dunn (November 15, 1794 – January 12, 1854) was a U.S. Representative from Indiana. He was born in New York City and moved to Lawrenceburg, Indiana in 1817 to study law.He was admitted to the bar in 1822 and commenced practice in Lawrenceburg, serving as member of the State house of representatives in 1828, 1832, and 1833. He was a promoter of the first railway in Indiana and was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Twenty-fourth Congress.
From March 4, 1837 to March 3, 1839, Dunn served on the Twenty-fifth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection. He resumed the practice of law and later became state treasurer from 1841-1844. He also served as judge of Dearborn County, Indiana and was president of the Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad at the time of his death in Lawrenceburg, Indiana on January 12, 1854. He was interred in New Town Cemetery.
Source: George Hedford Dunn, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaGeorge Dunn (Australian politician)
George Alexander Dunn (27 March 1859 – 18 July 1925) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly multi-member seat of Murray from 1915 to 1918, when his colleagues were Maurice Parish and Harry D. Young. He was elected as a member of the United Labor Party, but joined the National Party in 1917.
He was born at Macclesfield, South Australia, to Thomas (died before 1889) and his wife Jane Dunn (c. 1824 – October 1916), and served an apprenticeship as a carpenter. At the age of 14 he moved to Strathalbyn, and later to Adelaide. He spent some years in Victoria where he married Kate Lindsay Wood (daughter of Henry Wood, Melbourne) on 9 October 1889 at the Collins Street Congregational Church. He then returned to South Australia, settling in Summertown, where he was an orchardist. He served as a District Council of East Torrens councillor, and served a term as chairman. He was a member of the Summertown Institute and served as secretary and president, and was a trustee of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society.
He was not closely related to the old Dunn family of South Australia which included the miller John Dunn who founded Mount Barker, John Dunn Jr. MHA, William Henry Dunn MHA, William Paltridge MHA, Herbert Charles Dunn MHA, agriculturist Charles Dunn (1796–1881) who founded Charleston, South Australia, the Rev. William Arthur Dunn, president of Prince Alfred College, architect Hedley Allen Dunn, and embezzler and arsonist Alfred Henry Dunn (c. 1845–1904).
Source: George Dunn (Australian politician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Dunn
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