When James E. Dunn was born on 24 December 1857, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Larkin Dunn, was 46 and his mother, Catherine Jackson, was 40. He married Nancy McNeary McElyea on 12 January 1884, in Johnson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in District 4, Grainger, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Abingdon, Washington, Virginia, United States for about 10 years. He died on 23 February 1912, at the age of 54, and was buried in Green Spring, Washington, Virginia, United States.
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The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
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’).
Scottish: habitational name from Dun in Angus, named with Gaelic dùn ‘fort’. Compare Dun .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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