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DUNBAR. John Dunbar came from Scotland in 1730, and located in Cumberland county, Pa., near Carlisle. He had a son, William, who was the grandfather of Mrs. M. A. Embick. William Dunbar married Elizabeth Forbes, who was a native of Cumberland county, and three children were born to them: John; Ellen, who died in childhood; and Jane, who married Mr. James Lindsay, of this county. William Dunbar was a wealthy farmer, living west of Carlisle, in West Pennsboro township, and he was one of the founders of the first Presbyterian Church of Carlisle. His death occurred in 1844, when he was seventy-five years of age. His wife died in 1843, and is buried in the Meeting House cemetery.

John Dunbar, son of William, was born Feb. 16, 1803, and died Aug. 7, 1868. He married Nov. 20, 1834, Miss Agnes Waugh Greason, of Cumberland county, who was born May 28, 1811, and comes of an old and prominent family. She was a daughter of James Douglas Greason, whose family came in 1728 to this county, being of Scotch-Irish descent. John Dunbar was a farmer, but later retired to Greason, where he died. During a long and useful life he was a consistent member of the First Presbyterian Church of Carlisle. His remains were interred in the same cemetery as his mother’s. Nine children were born to himself and wife, of whom James Alfred, a graduate of Yale in the class of 1862, was admitted to the Bar and was engaged very successfully in the practice of his profession at Columbia, S. C., when he died at Aiken, S. C., at the age of thirty-eight years. Mary E., wife of Col. Embick, is the only other child who grew to maturity, the other seven having died in infancy. Mrs. Embick was educated at Washington Seminary, Washington, Pa., and at Dr. Nevin’s Seminary, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.