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Below is a family biography included in The History of Lawrence County, Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1886.  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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Thomas Dunn, a well known and prosperous business man of Lawrenceburg, Tenn., was born in Louisville, Ky., January, 1841, and is a son of James and Maria (Scully) Dunn, both natives of Ireland. Our subject was reared and educated in the city of Louisville. When but nineteen years of age he began the mercantile life as a clerk, and so continued until the war broke out. He enlisted as a private in Company A, Louisville Legion, at the beginning of the war, and served three years in the Federal Army as a soldier, when he was mustered out and accepted the post of sutlership in the Federal forces at Pulaski, Tenn. May, 1865, he came to Lawrenceburg and engaged in the general merchandising business with Mr. W. H. Dustin, with whom he has remained ever since. The firm, having met with more than ordinary success, carries the largest stock of general merchandise goods in the county, and controls the leading trade in this line in the town and county. The firm extended the scope of their business and engaged rather extensively in the cotton trade, conducting the Eagle and also Crescent cotton factories in the county. In 1873 Mr. Dunn married Sarah T. Sykes, a native of Lawrence County, Tenn., and the fruits of this union were four children. Our subject is strictly independent in politics, and a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

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This family biography is one of 79 biographies included in The History of Lawrence County, Tennessee published in 1886.  The History of Lawrence County was included within The History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman & Lewis Counties of Tennessee. For the complete description, click here: History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman and Lewis Counties of Tennessee

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