Dick Whitney Biography

Cutler, William G., History of the State of Kansas, published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. Bourbon County.

Biographies, Pawnee Township

WILLIAM DUNN, farmer, Section 34, a native of Wexford County, Ireland, was born in 1844. He came with his mother to America in 1856; they located in Pennsylvania; from there they moved to Wisconsin. His father having died in Ireland in 1856, the boys supported the family, and William's experience has been varied. In 1867 we find him employed on the Burlington Railroad, and afterward on the Union Pacific. While working on this road he lived for eleven months in Utah, where his first child was born. Here he made money; then moved to Omaha. He then pre-empted a farm on the Big Blue, but abandoned it and returned to Omaha working there for Dick Whitney. He then went to Texas and contracted on the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad, making money there and then returned to Kansas, December 31, 1873, and located on his present farm, where he has 320 acres of improved land. Here he handles about 100 head of cattle, from 300 to 400 head of sheep and some fifty hogs a year; reporting for 1882 a yield of forty bushels of corn to the acre on his farm. In 1866, he married, but has lost all his children but one boy--George J. Mr. Dunn is a Democrat in politics, and is a member, as is his wife, of the Catholic Church.

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