Robert Allen Dunn

23 February 1835–17 September 1864 (Age 29)
Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States

The Life Summary of Robert Allen

When Robert Allen Dunn was born on 23 February 1835, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Robert Adams Dunn, was 35 and his mother, Jane Barber, was 32. He married Mary Jane Tedford on 21 February 1856, in Louisa, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in East Deer Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850. He died on 17 September 1864, in Hempstead, Waller, Texas, United States, at the age of 29.

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Family Time Line

Robert Allen Dunn
1835–1864
Mary Jane Tedford
1837–1920
Marriage: 21 February 1856
John Alexander Dunn
1859–1935
Mary Maude Fransonia Dunn
1860–1947
Malinda Agnes Dunn
1862–1945
Catherine Elizabeth Dunn
1864–1923

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    21 February 1856Louisa, Iowa, United States
    • Children

    (4)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (10)

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    World Events (7)

    1836 · Remember the Alamo
    Age 1
    Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
    1844 · German Immigration to Texas
    Age 9
    Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
    1846
    Age 11
    U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

    Name Meaning

    (1997: 51549;2007: 105408; 2010: 141427)Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinn, Ó Doinn ‘descendant of Donn’, a byname meaning ‘brown-haired’ or ‘chieftain’. Compare Dunne . This name has sometimes been Anglicized as Brown .English: nickname for a dark complexioned or swarthy man, from Middle English dun ‘dun, dark’ (Old English dunn ‘dull brown’).

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Dunne
    Brown
    Don
    Done
    Dunsford
    Dunford
    Donn
    Dunson
    Dun

    Story Highlight

    Allen Dunn in the Civil War and widow Mary Jane

    Allen Dunn at age 15 was found in 1850 census in his parents’ home East Deer twp., Allegheny Co., Penna. In 1855 Allen came to Morning Sun, Iowa with brothers John and Adams, also sister Catherine Cro …

    Sources (7)

    • Robert A Dunn in household of Robert A Dunn, "United States Census, 1850"
    • P. O. Dunn, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
    • Dunn in entry for Maude F Mcmillan, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"

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