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Below is a family biography included in The History of Greene County, Illinois published by Donnelley, Gassette & Loyd in 1879. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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DUNN, G. V. boot and shoemaker, Barrow Station. Mr. Dunn has been established in business in Barrow for the past six years, where, and in the surrounding country he has the reputation of being both a rapid and skillful workman; he was born in Upper Canada, near Toronto, February, 1839; he was but twelve when his parents emigrated to Ohio, locating at Cleveland, where the head of the family followed shoe-making some six years, when he moved to Kentucky, and thence to Indiana, where young Dunn grew up, completing the trade of a shoemaker; when the war broke out he enlisted in Co. K, 81st Indiana Infantry, shortly after going to the front, where he became engaged in the following battles: Atlanta, Chickamauga, Franklin, Lookout Mountain, and many others famous in history; on the close of the war he was honorably discharged and returned to Indiana, where he married Miss Margaret A. Hollingsworth; in 1867 he moved to the southern portion of Illinois; one year later he moved to Kane, Greene Co., subsequently at Roodhouse, and thence to Barrow. Mr. Dunn has three children, Charles R., Geo. V., and Ira E.
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