When Hiram Perley Dunn was born on 23 May 1853, in Alexandria, Jefferson, New York, United States, his father, Hiram Mervin Dunn, was 38 and his mother, Huldah Bishop, was 33. He married Ida Annis Peeler in 1875, in Jefferson, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Antwerp, Antwerp, Jefferson, New York, United States in 1880 and Theresa, Theresa, Jefferson, New York, United States in 1900. He died on 8 October 1907, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Jefferson, New York, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Antwerp, Antwerp, Jefferson, New York, United States.
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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 .
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