GEORGE W. DUNN, physician, Forest City; son of Richard and Ann (Wilkinson) Dunn. His father was born at Gales, Yorkshire, England, in 1806 and died in 1875; he was a shoemaker. His mother was a daughter of James and Letitia Wilkinson, of England, was born in 1809 and is still living, in England. They had four children, all of whom survive, viz., James, living at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, who is general freight agent of the Trafalgar Street Station; Jane, living in Richmond, England; Ann, married.and living in Edinburgh, Scotland; and the subject of our sketch, who was born June 29, 1841, in Richmond, Yorkshire, England; he early attended school at the national and corporation schools in Richmond; in 1854, he was appointed as pupil teacher in the national school, in which he served five years. He passed a yearly examination; in I860, he came to Massachusetts and engaged for six months in a woolen mill; leaving there, he assisted in the office of the American Temperance Union, at New York, for some time, and afterward engaged in charge of the M. E. Church, at Milburn, N. J.; in September, 1801, he was received into the North Ohio Conference of the M. E. Church, and, in 1863, was ordained Deacon and, in 1865, Elder. He was married, Sept. 10, 1863, to Kate Shaffner, daughter of Martin and Susannah Shaffner, of Pennsylvania; her father was born in 1787 and died in 1870, her mother was born in 1809 and died in 1850; both were members of the M. E. Church, he for sixty-five years. Mrs. Dunn was born April 4,1841. In 1865, the Doctor moved to Missouri and settled in Knox Co., engaging in the ministry and practicing medicine; in 1869, he moved to Barton Co., Mo., and continued in the ministry and practicing, afterward moving to Jasper Co., Mo., continuing the same avocations; in 1871-72, he attended the Eclectic Medical College, at Cincinnati. Ohio, was valedictorian of the class and graduated in the spring of 1872; he returned and continued his practice at Georgia City, Jasper Co., Mo.; he afterward moved to Newton Co., Mo., practicing there some time, and thence to Barton Co., in 1876 ; he still continued his professions, and, while there, was made President of Barton County Sabbath School Associaiion for two terms; they then located at Forest City, Ill., July 12, 1877, where they have been ever since; he still continues his practice and is doing a lucrative business. He not only devotes his time to his profession but throws his soul into the duties of the Sabbath school, church and temperance movement, which should be the effort of every physician who expects the smile of Providence on his labors. He is now Vice President of the Sabbath School Association of Forest City Township and was chosen lay delegate to the Illinois Conference of the M. E. Church for 1879; he and his wife retain their membership in the M. E. Church at Forest City; he has been a member of the Missouri State Eclectic Medical Society and is at present a member of the Illinois Eclectic Medical Society; he was also Corresponding Secretary of the Missouri Medical Association. They have five children: Harry W., A. Lincoln, Kingsley G , Anna K., and Richard Martin, deceased in February, 1879.



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