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John G. Dunn, farmer and stock dealer, near Hendersonville, Tenn., was born in Sumner County, August, 1826. He is one of seven children of Albert G. and Amanda (Gowen) Dunn. The father, of Irish and Scotch origin, was born near Nashville, Tenn., in 1804. Since 1825 he has farmed near Hendersonville. The mother, born in 1806 where the asylum is now located, near Nashville, died in 1868. With common-school advantages and those of Robertson Academy, in Davidson County, our subject began for himself as farmer when eighteen years of age. In 1846 he married Susan, daughter of William and Elizabeth Shaw, and a native of Sumner County. She died in February, 1848. In December, 1849, he married Margaret D., daughter of Thos. and Sallie (Smith) Watson, and born in Wilson County in 1834. Their three children are Mary L., Sallie W., and Harry S., passenger conductor from Pensacola, Fla., to Repton, Ala., who began running a train when twenty years old. In 1885 his second wife died; she was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. A Whig previous to the war, Mr. Dunn has since become a Democrat. His children are all members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.