JACOB BUNN was born June 6, 1847, in Thomson(sic) Township, Seneca County, Ohio. He graduated in the classical course of Heidelberg College in 1870, and was admitted to the bar in 1871. He opened an office in Tiffin, under the firm of "Bunn & Dildine."
Since Mr. Dildine's connection with the "Star," Mr. Bunn has taken an active part in the management of one of the shoe factories of Tiffin. Mr. Bunn is an efficient business man, and a gentleman of fine scholarly attainments.
1874 Atlas
JACOB FREDERICK BUNN, attorney at law, Tiffin, and judge of the Probate Court of Seneca County, was born
in Thompson Township this county, June 6, 1847., He comes of English ancestry on his father's side, and is of
pioneer Pennsylvania stock. His grandfather, John Bunn, was a native of Berks County, Penn., and thence
removed to Perry County, in the same State (where Jacob Bunn, father of the Judge, was born), and from there to
this county at an early period in its history, settling in Thompson Township. The Subject of this sketch, when a lad,
attended the common schools of this county, and at nineteen entered Heidelberg College, taking a full classical
course of study, graduating in 1870. He had in the meantime engaged in the study of law in the office of the Hon.
George E. Seney, and upon completing his studies at Heidelberg entered the Cincinnati Law School, in affiliation
with the University of Cincinnati, and the following year was admitted to the practice of that profession in the
State. He formed a partnership with the late Hon. A. V. Bierce, of Akron, Ohio, where he continued in excellent
professional work for two years, when he-retired from it there and came to Tiffin, this county, the associations
surrounding his alma mater proving the magnet. Here he developed his abilities as a jurist, and, in 1878, received
the nomination of his party and was elected to the incumbency which he now enjoys, and was re-elected to succeed
himself in 1881. He married in Tiffin, in October, 1873, Miss Laura O., daughter of the late Hezekiah Groff, of
Tiffin, a lady of estimable attainments, a graduate of Heidelberg, and who passed away her young life July 12,
1880, and is buried in Greenlawn Cemetery. Judge Bunn is a keen dissecter of facts, a deep reasoner, and, while
busily engaged in adjudicating the more important portions of a case, does not let a single feature escape him,
weighing well every issue. He is slow of conviction, but positive when convinced, characteristics which eminently fit
him for more exalted spheres as a jurist in the time to come. Socially, he is an excellent citizen and an active
supporter of measures tending to the city's development. He is vice-president of the Tiffin Edison Electric
Illuminating Company, was for several years president of the Board of Trade of Tiffin, member of the school
board, and is a member of the Library Association.
Trancribed by Bonnie Walsh.
WARNER, BEERS & CO., 1886
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part IV, p.763-764
CLINTON TOWNSHIP
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