Albert Walter Dunn

Brief Life History of Albert Walter

When Albert Walter Dunn was born on 9 April 1906, in Salem, Marion, Oregon, United States, his father, John Hodd Dunn, was 43 and his mother, Ida Agnes West, was 30. He married Frances Ann Cribbins on 6 August 1941, in Clark, Washington, United States. He lived in Falls City, Polk, Oregon, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1929. He died on 29 October 1982, in Vancouver, Clark, Washington, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Happy Valley, Clackamas, Oregon, United States.

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Albert Walter Dunn
1906–1982
Wilma Edna Jones
1909–2004
Marriage: 1943
Ada Lynn Dunn
1947–1953

Sources (24)

  • Albert W Dunn in household of John H Dunn, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Albert Walter Dunn - Published information: Cemetery record or headstone: birth:
  • Albert W Dunn, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"

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1907 · Not for profit elections

The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.

1907 · Pike's Market

Pike’s Market is one of the oldest still working farmer’s markets in the US. It is located in Seattle’s central business district, just north of Belltown , and southwest of central waterfront and Elliott Bay. One of the attractions there is the gum wall. 

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

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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