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JOHN DUNLAP, farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Le Roy; one of the early pioneers of McLean Co.; born in White Co., Ill., April 21, 1827; his father, Moses Dunlap, emigrated from Tennessee to White Co., at a very early day, where he lived until about the year 1828, when he emigrated north and located at Blooming Grove, and entered land joining the old home of Judge McClenn; living here about five years, they went to Arkansas, but returned and entered land in Empire Township, McLean Co., in 1834, upon which he lived until his decease, which occurred May 6, 1858. Mrs. Dunlap died June 23, 1863. The subject of this sketch emigrated with his parents to McLean Co. in 1828, and, with them, located upon Sec. 2, Empire Township, in 1834, where he has since lived with the exception of seven years, in which he was engaged in farming in Marshall Co., Iowa, and Cherokee Co., Kan. Mr. Dunlap is an industrious, hard-working man, a good business manager, and much respected in the township in which he lives; he has accumulated a good property, and raised a family of ten children, having lost three by death; the living are — Henry, Josephine, Rosella, Moses, James, Stephen, William, Lucinda C., Margaret A. and Eliza. His brother James was one of the first white children born in McLean Co., being born in Blooming Grove, April 1, 1829; he never married, but made his home with his brother John until his decease, which occurred May 29, 1878.