Collection ID: LMC 1297
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Summary

Creator:
Dunn, George Grundy, 1812-1857
Abstract:
The Dunn mss., 1834-1850, consists of the papers of George Grundy Dunn, 1812-1857, lawyer and congressman of Bedford, Indiana.
Extent:
1 Box (1 standard)
Language:
Materials are in English .
Preferred citation:

[Item], Dunn mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Background

Biographical / Historical:

George Grundy Dunn, 1812-1857, lawyer and congressman of Bedford, Indiana, was born on December 20, 1812, in Washington county, Kentucky, and came to Indiana as a boy, settling in Monroe county. He entered Indiana University but left college his junior year due to difficulties with President Andrew Wylie. After teaching school in Switzerland County, Ind., for a time, he moved to Bedford, Indiana, in 1833, where he continued to teach while studying law. In 1835, he was admitted to the bar and formed a partnership with Richard Wigginton Thompson at Bedford. He held the following public offices: prosecuting attorney, Lawrence county, Indiana, 1842; U.S. congressman, 1847-1849 (as a Whig) and 1855-1857 (as a Republican); Indiana state senator, 1850-1852. He died in Bedford on September 4, 1857.

Scope and Content:

Among the correspondents are: John W. Anderson, William T. Banks, John Barbee, Lloyd J. Beall, Joseph W. Briggs, Henry Massie Bullit, Samuel Casseday, John M. Clark, Schuyler Colfax, Henry Collins, John Finley Crowe, George William Crump, William S. Culbertson, John Wesley Davis, Jesse Kilgore Dubois, John Dumont, William Duncan, Alexander H. Dunihue, Daniel R. Dunihue, James Wilson Dunn, William McKee Dunn, Williamson Dunn, Paris Chipman Dunning, Robert Henry Fauntleroy, William C. Foster, Willis Arnold Gorman, William P. Hall, George W. Hardin, Hedden, Day & Co., Tilghman Ashurst Howard, Nathan Kimball, Kinney, Wright & Gookins, John M. McCalla, Edward W. McGaughey, Joseph Glass McPheeters, John Young Mason, James M. Mathes, David Hervey Maxwell, Samuel Miles, Morton & Griswold, Morton and Smith, William Ellis Niblack, William Tod Otto, Pearson and Anderson, Daniel Darwin Pratt, George Denison Prentice, William Quarles, Joseph Rawlins, James Reed, Lovell Harrison Rousseau, Alfred Ryors, Harvey D. Scott, Milton Stapp, Henry Tanner, Zachary Taylor, Richard Wigginton Thompson, Nathan Towson, John Sebrie Watts, James Whitcomb, Asa Whitney, Elisha Whittlesey, George W. Wood, Andrew Wylie, and Richard Montgomery Young.

Acquisition information:
Gift: 1951
Arrangement:

Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

Physical location:
Lilly - Stacks

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PREFERRED CITATION:

[Item], Dunn mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
1200 East Seventh Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500, USA
CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
CONTACT:
(812) 855-2452
liblilly@indiana.edu