WILLIAM N. DUNN of Hopewell Township, Seneca County, Ohio, was born in Sullivan County, New York State, on the 1st of February, 1815. In 1834, he, in company with his parents, removed to Wayne County, remaining there until the year 1841 at which time he removed to Hopewell Township, and cleared off the site of his present homestead, containing one hundred and twenty acres. In 1842, after having cleared a small space and erected a log cabin eighteen by twenty feet, he married Sophia W. Clark, of New York. They resided here eight years when Mr. D. erected a large building, and moved his family into it, where they resided until it- together with eight other buildings-was destroyed by fire, which calamity occurred on the 18th of April, 1872. The family consists of six children, 7 sons, an only daughter dying in infancy. One son, Arlington, married to Mary Oster; Devolson married Mahala E. Miller; and William married Alice M..Smoyer, all residents of the Township. The farm contains two hundred acres of land, a fine residence, which is occupied D. C. Dunn, a son of Mr. D., and a barn forty by eighty-two feet. The family now reside in a fine brick house in Tiffin, No.28 Water Street, overlooking the Sandusky River. Mr. Dunn has been a hard worker, and is now enjoying the fruit of his industry.


1874 Atlas