Dunn mss., 1834-1850
Papers of Various at the Lilly Library, Indiana
University, Bloomington, Indiana
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Summary Information
Repository
Lilly
Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Indiana University
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Creator
Various
TitleDunn mss., 1834-1850
Collection No.
LMC 1297
Extent
1398 items
(1 box)
Language
Materials are in
English.
Abstract
The
Dunn mss., 1834-1850, consists of papers of George Grundy Dunn, 1812-1857,
lawyer and congressman of Bedford, Indiana.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Biographical Note
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 in September 4, 1857.
Scope and Content Note
The Dunn mss., 1834-1850, consists of papers of George Grundy Dunn, 1812-1857,
lawyer and congressman of Bedford, Indiana.
The papers in this collection consist of law office
correspondence on claims and collections, and political and
congressional office correspondence during Dunn's first term in
Congress.
Among the correspondents are: John B. Abbett, Thomas M. Adams,
Jesse Ianthus Alexander, Cyrus McCracken Allen, James Anderson,
John W. Anderson, William Goforth Armstrong, William T. Banks,
John Barbee, Theodore Barnett, C.L. Barrackman, Lloyd I. Bealle,
John Beard, I.G. Berret, Matthew L. Brett, Joseph W. Briggs,
Austin Haymond Brown, W.W. Brown, William Bruce, R.R. Bryant,
S.S. Bucklin, Henry Massie Bullit, Richard Y. Caddington, Hugh
Carey, Robert N. Carnan, James W. Carter, Samuel Casseday, Alfred
Y. Clagett, Asahel Clapp, Gustavus Clark, John M. Clark, Richard
Andrew Clements, John G. Clendenin, Schuyler Colfax, Andrew
Collins, Henry Collins, James Collins, Henry Cooper, John
Cowgill, W.H. Craig, John Finley Crowe, George William Crump,
William S. Culbertson, Courtland Cushing, J.H. Cutter, Joseph B.
Danforth, Henry Davis, John Steele Davis, John Wesley Davis,
Clarendon Davisson, A.V. Dayton, Marcus L. Deal, Hiram Decker,
John Dougherty Defrees, Jesse Kilgore Dubois, John Dumont,
William Duncan, Alexander H. Dunihue, Daniel R. Dunihue, James
Wilson Dunn, William McKee Dunn, Williamson Dunn, Paris Chipman
Dunning, Thomas P. East, James L. Edwards, Abner T. Ellis, James
W. Emison, Samuel N. Evans, Robert Henry Fauntleroy, Cornelius
Fellowes, William Fellowes, George G. Fetter, Winthrop Foot,
William C. Foster, William M. Franklin, A.H. Gainey, William
Garvin, Willis Arnold Gorman, Robert C. Gregory, John R. Hadden,
William P. Hall, S. T. Hardesty, George W. Hardin, Hedden, Day
& Co., David Heran, William Herod, Craven P. Hester, James
Scott Hester, Wallace Hight, Abraham Hite, Ormsby Hite, Lucien Q.
Hoggatt, Tilghman Ashurst Howard, Joseph McDonald Howe, James
Hughes, William Humphreys, Elisha Mills Huntington, Samuel F.
Irwin, Isaac E. Johnson, George H. Johnston, Daniel D. Jones,
Ambrose Kern, Nathan Kimball, William Kimmel, Kinney, Wright
& Gookins, Charles B. Lasselle, John Law, Henry Lingle, Emory
Low, James Low, Jacob B. Lowe, Daniel Lunderman, John M. McCalla,
Daniel W. McClure, David McDonald, Edward W. McGaughey, John
McMahan, Joseph Glass McPheeters, Thomas Marks, Joseph Glass
Marshall, John Young Mason, Isaac Mass, James M. Mathes, David
Hervey Maxwell, Samuel Miles, John A. Millen, Robert Mitchell,
Benjamin F. Morse, Morton & Griswold, Morton and Smith,
George Holibird Munson, Michael Murphy, George W. New, Benjamin
Newland, William Newland, John S. Newman, William Ellis Niblack,
William C. Nutt, James O'Boyle, John Orchard, William Tod Otto,
Pearson and Anderson, George M. Phillips, William Piatt, Daniel
Darwin Pratt, George Denison Prentice, William Quarles, Joseph
Rawlins, Daniel Read, James Reed, Joseph Reed, Samuel Reid,
Gilbert James Rice, Harlan Richards, John Robb, Lovell Harrison
Rousseau, Richard H. Rousseau, S.D. Ruckle, Alfred Ryors, John S.
Scobey, Harvey D. Scott, William A. Scribner, Stephen P. Seall,
Horace B. Shepard, Henry B. Shields, John M. Sluss, Ballard
Smith, Hamilton Smith, Samuel W. Smith, Truman Smith, Joseph
Somes, Benjamin O. Spencer, Milton Stapp, A. Sutherland, Henry
Tanner, William E. Taylor, Zachary Taylor, Elias S. Terry,
Frederick A. Thomas, John D. Thomasson, John H. Thompson, Richard
Wigginton Thompson, John Harbison Thornburgh, George A. Thornton,
Thomas V. Thornton, H.H. Throop, George E. Tingle, Nathan Towson,
J.W. Tucker, John Van Trees, John Vestal, Gideon Walker, John
Sebrie Watts, George W. Weissinger, Isaac Westfall, James
Whitcomb, Asa Whitney, Elisha Whittlesey, Sherrod Williams,
Vinson Williams, Delano Eccles Williamson, Martin Wines, George
W. Wood, Andrew Wylie, Simon Yandes, and Richard Montgomery
Young.
Related Material
See Dunn mss. II, also located at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Gift: 1951
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however, patrons from out of town are encouraged to communicate with
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materials.
Photocopying permitted only with permission of the curator.
Preferred Citation
[Item], Dunn mss., Lilly Library,
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Container List
Dunn mss.
1398 items
(1 box)
