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chester, New York, January 21, 1862, was the daughter of David and Maria Mook, early settlers in Johnson County.

Mr. Dunlap was graduated from the Tecumseh High School in 1917, and later was a student at the University of Nebraska, where he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega. He has lived in Nebraska for 26 years, and is now cashier of the Farmers State Bank, at Douglas, Nebraska.

His marriage to Helen A. Jobes was solemnized at Tecumseh, June 15, 1921. Mrs. Dunlap, the daughter of J. L. and Ella Jobes, was born at Johnson County, Nebraska, March 11, 1900. They have four children: George Allan, born June 7, 1925; Don Lee, born December 21, 1928; Jay Loren, born November 15, 1930; and Paul David, born November 15, 1930.

During the World War, Mr. Dunlap was a private in the S. A. T. C. at the University of Nebraska. He is a Mason, and is affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church at Douglas. Residence: Douglas.

William Alpheus Dunlavy

Born in Deersville, Ohio, June 26, 1856, William Alpheus Dunlavy is the son of James and Lucretia Taylor (Glandon) Dunlavy. The father, born in Deersville, February 22, 1825, was a school teacher, farmer and stockman, a breeder of Durham cattle and Chester White hogs. An ardent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he was a strong Whig and later a Republican. His father, born in Dublin, Ireland, came to America as a child in 1800, and married Elisabeth McBeth. She was of Irish descent, born in Pennsylvania.

Lucretia Taylor Glandon was born near Deersville, Ohio, March 10, 1829, and died at Holdrege, Nebraska, May 28, 1903. Her husband preceded her in death at Rushville, Illinois, January 18, 1869. Left a widow while very young, she was extremely devoted to her children, her chief outside interest being the Methodist Episcopal Church. Hr (sic) parents were Pennsylvanians, her father, William Glandon, of Scotch extraction. Her mother's maiden name was Mary Magdalene Peacock.

William A. Dunlavy received his early education in country school, and later took Bishop J. H. Vincent's correspondence Chautauqua course, which he has supplemented by nights of study and reading. In early manhood he taught school five years, and has since engaged in farming and stock raising, at the present time in association with Newton R. Betts.

He was a member of the commission which appeared before Food Commissioner Herbert Hoover in the interests of stockmen of Nebraska on March 12, 1918, appointed by Governor Keith Neville. On November 1, 1918, he was appointed state and federal government representative in all farm bureau activities in Franklin County, by Governor Neville.

On August 29, 1880, he was married to Effie Gabriel at Rushville, Illinois, and they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1930. Mrs. Dunlavy, who was born at Payson, Illinois, June 11, 1861, is fond of reading, music and travel. She and Mr. Dunlavy have visited Porto Rico and the Hawaiian Islands for study, recreation and pleasure, but have always taken much comfort in returning to their beautiful home in Franklin County.

Mrs. Dunlavy is the daughter of William Rowell and Sarah Elizabeth (Collins) Gabriel, the former of whom was a direct descendant of Abraham Gabriel, a private soldier in the Revolutionary War. There are four children, Alva James, born November 7, 1881, who married Doris Cole; Jessie, born April 5, 1883, who married Harvey Godfrey McComb; Vernon Atwell, born October 31, 1887, who married Elizabeth Warrick; and Lucretia, born January 4, 1890, who married Newton Riley Betts.

Alva is a dentist in Honolulu, Jessie is head of the extension service department of Oregon; Vernon is principal of high school and a fruit farmer at Sonora, California; while Lucretia and her family are on her father's farm in Franklin County. All are independent politically.

Mr. Dunlavy has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for fifty-five years and has been active in Sunday School work. He has been a member of the Epworth League for many years, and for a number of years has been on the school board. He is a member of the Red Cross, and the local temperance organizations, and is a life member of The Nebraskana Society. Perhaps his greatest interests are traveling and collecting relics and souveniers from land and sea in American and foreign lands, but he also enjoys hiking in Yellowstone Park, the Grand Canyon and the Petrified Forests of Arizona. Residence: Bloomington. (Photograph on Page 351).

Arthur Leroy Dunn

A leading educator in Grand Island, Arthur Leroy Dunn has resided in Nebraska for the past twenty-seven years. He was born at Greenleaf, Kansas, April 18, 1886, son of Benjamin Joseph and Mary Elizabeth (Rines) Dunn. His father, who held the rank of first sergeant in the 9th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry 1861-65, was born at Towanda, New Jersey, April 2, 1840. He died at Greenleaf, Kansas, September 18, 1891. He was of Scotch-Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch descent.

Mary Elizabeth Rines, his wife, was a native of Asberry, New Jersey, born March 9, 1845. She is the granddaughter of Obadiah Evans, who enlisted in the Revolutionary War with the First Establishment from the New Jersey Continental Line, on February 28, 1776, and who served until the end of the war.

Mr. Dunn attended country school, high school and business college, and afterward taught for a time in public schools. He then worked for a lumber company for a short period. His life work has been teaching in business colleges, in later years supplemented by managerial work along the same lines. At the present time he is president of the Grand Island Business College, and a director of the Nebraska College of Commerce at Hastings.

His marriage to Astella Clara Gingherick was solemnized at Grand Island, June 14, 1911, and to them was born one daughter, Nina Leanore, on August 2, 1915. Mrs. Dunn was born at Chadron, Nebraska, September 21, 1889.

Mr. Dunn is affiliated with the First Methodist Episcopal Church, is a member of the Chambers of Commerce at Grand Island and Hastings and is a life member of the Nebraskana Society. He is a Master Mason (Ashlar Lodge No. 33; 32nd degree, Hastings Consistory) and a member of Tehama Temple of the Shrine. He is also a member of Elks Lodge No. 604. Residence: Grand Island.

Ballard Dunn

Ballard Dunn, perhaps the best known newspaper man in Nebraska, is a native of Indianapolis, born September 16, 1877. He is the son of William McCullough and Amy (Talbot) Dunn. William McCullough Dunn, born at Lawrenceville, Indiana, January 8, 1844, was a physician who matriculated at Rush Medical College, receiving his M. D. from Louisville Medical College. He was engaged in the practice of medicine forty-five years. He died at Los Angeles in 1924. His wife, Amy Talbot Dunn, was a native of Kentucky. In early life she was associated with the original temperance and equal rights workers, Frances Willard and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She died in Los Angeles in 1916.

Ballard Dunn's maternal grandfather was a grandson of Sarah Ballard, sister of Bland Ballard, who with his family went into Kentucky over the wilderness trial from Virginia with the first settlers who followed Daniel Boone, and who with all his family except a brother, James, and sister, Sarah, were massacred by Indians. Both the Dunn

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and Talbot families have been in America for many generations.

Upon the completion of his elementary education in the country schools of Crawford County, Missouri, Mr. Dunn attended St. Louis High School two years. He received his LL.B. from the law department of Washington University in 1898 and in 1899 entered the newspaper field, in association with the St. Louis Chronicle and then the Colorado Springs Gazette. He continued with that paper one year, and then became connected with the Chicago Inter-Ocean. He has been associated successively with the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Evening Journal (editor), and the Omaha Bee-News (editor in chief 1924-29). He is now editor and publisher of The Omaha Journal.

He served in the Spanish American War as a private First Missouri Volunteers. He holds the rank of major in the Special Reserves, and during the world war was chief of the bureau for suggestions and complaints of the United States Railroad Administration. In 1919 he was assistant chief of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. He is a member of the United Spanish War Veterans.

On July 27, 1907, he was married to Eleanor Reese at Chicago. Mrs. Dunn was born at Chicago, December 24, 1876, and is of Danish descent.

Mr. Dunn is a Republican and during his career in Chicago was a member and president of the Cook County civil service commission. He is not affiliated with any church, but attends Christian Science meetings. He is an Elk and a Mason and a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Omaha Athletic Club. His hobby is the study of history, economics, philosophy and psychology. Residence: Omaha. (Photograph on Page 353).

I. J. Dunn

For the past 30 years I. J. Dunn has been a leading lawyer at Omaha, and has taken an active part in the political affairs of his community and state. He was born in Sarpy County, Nebraska, the son of pioneer Nebraskans, February 1, 1868, and has lived in Nebraska all his life. His father, Michael Dunn, was born in Tipperary, Ireland, in 1826, and in 1866 moved to Sarpy County, Nebraska, where he settled on a quarter-section of government land under the preemption law. He still owned the land at the time of his death at Papillion, on November 14, 1900. His mother was born of Scotch and Irish parents in County Antrim, Ireland, in 1836, and died at Papillion, October, 1926.

Mr. Dunn attended the rural schools of Sarpy county and later was a student at Creighton College for a time. He was admitted to the bar in 1900, and at the present time is a member of the firm Ziegler and Dunn at Omaha.

A Democrat, he was deputy county attorney of Douglas County, 1898-1902; assistant city attorney of Omaha, 1906-11; delegate at large to the Democratic national convention at Denver, 1908, and at Baltimore, 1912; was nominated, but declined the nomination, for congress, in 1896.

He is a member of the Nebraska Pioneer Organization, and the Douglas County Pioneer Society, an Elk, and a member of the Omaha Field Club. He is fond of out of doors recreations, including golfing, fishing, hunting, and hiking, and is a Catholic.

He was united in marriage to Maude M. Wingrove at St. Louis, Missouri, April, 1900. Mrs. Dunn was a teacher before her marriage. She is of an old English family at Buckhannon, Upshur County, West Virginia. Residence: Omaha.

Lester Lloyd Dunn

Lester L. Dunn, a lawyer at Lincoln, for the past 11 years, was born at Atlantic, Iowa, November 29, 1890, the son of Albert Lawrence and Carolyn Hester (Stier) Dunn. His father, who was a merchant and broker, was born at Vinton, Iowa, July 4, 1866, and died at Atlantic, May 30, 1908; his ancestry was Irish. His mother was born at Davenport, Iowa, May 30, 1872 of German descent.

Mr. Dunn was graduated from the Lincoln Academy in 1914, after receiving his grade school education in Iowa. He was awarded the LL. B. degree at the University of Nebraska, where he won honors in public speaking and was president of his junior class. There he was also elected to membership in Delta Chi and Phi Alpha Tau. Since his admission to the bar at Lincoln, March 24, 1919, he has been engaged in the general practice of law there, except from 1920 to 1924, when he was counsel to the compensation commission and chief of the division of workmen's compensation, State of Nebraska. He has lived in Nebraska for 20 years.

He married Aetna Patricia Eakin at Lincoln, June 4, 1919. Mrs. Dunn was born at Little Rock, Arkansas, July 17, 1894 and is of Irish and English descent. Mr. Dunn served in the World War, and is a member of the American Legion. He is also a member of the Nebraska State Bar Association, the Lancaster County Bar Association, the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce, Red Cross, Salvation Army, and the Young Men's Christian Association. He is a 32nd degree Mason, and is affiliated with Westminster Presbyterian Church at Lincoln. His favorite sport is hiking. Residence: Lincoln.

Albert Chester Dunning

A resident of Nebraska for the past 50 years, Albert Chester Dunning is now a retired grain dealer of Shelby, Polk County, Nebraska. He was born at Shelby, April 6, 1881, the son of Frank and Katherine (Clark) Dunning. His father, who was born at Watson, Michigan, September 18, 1851, of German parentage, was a farmer; he died at Shelby, January 18, 1923. His mother, whose French and Canadian parents came to this country in 1867, was born at Dodgeville, Wisconsin.

Mr. Dunning was formerly president of the Shelby Grain Company and had been in the grain business continuously until he retired in 1929. He is a director in the Shelby State Bank, and is a member of the Red Cross, the Shelby Commercial Club, the Odd Fellows, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and the Nebraskana Society. He is a Democrat.

On December 14, 1904, he was united in marriage with Josephine Thelen at Shelby. Mrs. Dunning was born at Shelby, July 17, 1883. She is a member of the Eastern Star, and is past president of the Woman's Club and the Methodist Episcopal Church Society. Her German ancestors settled in Hackberry Precinct in 1869. Their son, John Ray, who was born September 24, 1907, is married to Esther Laura Blevins. He is a graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan University where he held membership in Phi Kappa Tau and Phi Kappa Phi, and is now instructor in the physics department at Columbia University. Residence: Shelby.

George Bela Durkee

George Bela Durkee, for many years prominent in agricultural life in Adams County, was born at Big Rock, Illinois, December 28, 1859. He is the son of Nathan Dimick and Angeline Jewitt (Wood) Durkee, both descended from early New England settlers. Nathan Durkee was born in New Hampshire, March 6, 1830, and died at Hansen, Nebraska, January 1, 1895. His wife was born at Berkshire, Vermont, November 30, 1832, and died at Big Rock, February 15, 1886.

Mr. Durkee attended country school and came to Nebraska about forty-eight years ago. He has engaged in farming for many years, and has served as a member

of the county board of Adams County, the Adams County fair board, and for five years was president of the Farm Central Insurance Company. He is now retired.

He was married to Belle Wallis at Sandwich, Illinois. March 14, 1883, and to them were born two children; Minnie, born August 27, 1884, who married W. E. Christopher; and Grace Edith, born December 11, 1888, who married Arnold Bauman. Both are farmers.

Mr. Durkee is a Republican. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, has served on the school board seventeen years, and is a member and director of the Chamber of Commerce. A 32nd degree Mason, also a member of the Young Men's Christian Association and the Red Cross. Fishing is his favorite sport.

Mrs. Durkee, who was born at Somonauk. Illinois, November 1, 1859, died at Hastings, November 28, 1925. Residence: Hastings.

Edward Eugene Duryee

Born at Lexington, Nebraska, September 12, 1884, Edward Eugene Duryee is the son of Edward Joseph and Julia Catherine (Conlin) Duryee. His father, whose ancestry was French, was born at New York, July 15, 1857, and died at Lexington, January 4, 1922. His mother, whose parents were Irish, was born in Canada, November 29, 1860, and died at Lexington, August 12, 1915.

Mr. Duryee was graduated from the Lexington High School, and in 1906 received the Ph. G. degree at Highland Park College of Pharmacy, Des Moines, Iowa. He clerked in drug stores at Lexington; Overton, Smithfield, Broken Bow, Nebraska; and Des Moines, Iowa. He is the owner and manager of the Duryee Drug Company at Oxford, Nebraska, and is the manufacturer of Duryee's Stomach Powder, Duryee's Throat Gargle, and Eedo's Laxative Tablets.

He is a member of the Nebraska State Pharmaceutical Association, the National Association Board of Pharmacy, the American Pharmaceutical Association, and the National Association of Retail Druggists. He has been president of the Oxford Board of Education for eight years, is president of the State Board of Pharmacy Examiners, and holds membership in the Society of American Magicians and I. B. M. He is a member of the Knights Templar and Shrine bodies of the Masons, is past master of Rawalt Lodge Number 138, and holds membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His hobby is sleight of hand tricks.

Mr. Duryee is a registered pharmacist in Nebraska and has a certificate to practice in any one of twenty-five other states. He is affiliated with the Republican party and holds membership in the Nebraskana Society.

Of his marriage to Josephine Knapple, two children were born: Merle, September 6, 1905, who was graduated from a four-year course in pharmacy at the University of Nebraska; and Ruth, April 10, 1907, who is a senior in the college of arts and sciences at the University of Nebraska. Residence: Oxford. (Photograph in Album).

Anton Dusatko

For the past fifty-five years Anton Dusatko has been a farmer and business man at Clarkson, Nebraska. He was born at Caslav, Czechoslovakia, June 11, 1861, the son of James and Barbara (Turek) Dusatko. His father, who was a farmer, was born at Caslav, 1826, and died at Abie, Nebraska, June 8, 1880; he came to this country in 1876. His mother was born at Caslav, in 1832, and died at Abie, December 18, 1912.

Mr. Dustako who has been prominent in Colfax County public affairs for many years, received most of is education by hard work and private study, much of his studying being done at night schools. He was engaged in farming for five years; and for over 35 years has been in the lumber, grain, and coal business. He is now president of the Anoka Lumber and Grain Company of Anoka, Nebraska; and is a director of the State Farmers Insurance Company of Omaha.

A Democrat, he was unsuccessful candidate for representative from Colfax County in 1926. He served for several years as a member of the town board at Clarkson; was director of the Clarkson schools for five years; and was treasurer of the local Red Cross, 1917-29. He is a member of the Clarkson Commercial Club; the Czech Historical Club of Nebraska; the Nebraskana Society; and Z. C. B. J.

During the late war he helped to sell war bonds and savings stamps and was a generous contributor to war loan funds. He is affiliated with the New Zion Presbyterian Church at Clarkson. His hobbies and sports are reading; studying; fishing and hunting.

Mr. Dusatko was married to Anna Margaret Marsh at Linwood, Butler County, Nebraska, March 1, 1888. Mrs. Dusatko was born at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, February 15, 1868. Their children are as follows: Anna Louise, born September 22, 1888, who married Joseph T. Votava; Ida Mathilda, born February 8, 1893, who married Boies H. Turk; Bertha Mary, born June 9, 1895, who married Joseph Pekar; Olga Ozina, born September 4, 1900, who married Cline C. Finlay; and Alan Albert, born October 30, 1903, who married Christina Foyt. All the children were given high school and university training. Residence: Clarkson.

Frank Benham DuTeil

Frank B. DuTeil, a merchant at Lincoln, since 1889, was born at LaFayette, Indiana, October 19, 1869. His father, Claude Charles DuTeil, who was born in Tippecanoe County, March 14, 1830, and died at LaFayette, in 1880, was a mechanic. He served as first lieutenant of the 16th Indiana Artillery during the Civil War and was of French and English descent.

His mother was born at Warren, Ohio, December 20, 1832, and died at Lincoln, September 2, 1916. She was of Dutch descent on the maternal side and Welch through the paternal line.

Mr. DuTeil was graduated from the Lincoln High School in 1889. Engaged in the wholesale and retail tobacco business in Lincoln for over 40 years, and is now the owner and manager of F. A. Brown Company.

During the World War he engaged in clerical work and was active in loan drives at various times; in 1898 he was a private in Company F of the Nebraska National Guard. He holds membership in the Chamber of Commerce, the University Club, the Shrine Club, and the Nebraskana Society, and his fraternal organizations include the Masons, Modern Woodmen of America, and Elks.

He was united in marriage with Clare Sophia Wolf at Lincoln, June 3, 1903. Mrs. DuTeil, who was a bookkeeper before her marriage, was born at Lincoln, May 19, 1875. Residence: Lincoln.

Albert Frank Dutton

Albert Frank Dutton, hardware and implement dealer, was born in Deweese, Nebraska, June 27, 1896, son of William Albert and Katie (Wagner) Dutton.

The father was born in Illinois, December 4, 1862, and is a farmer. His ancestry is mostly English. The mother was born in Germany, October 14, 1866.

Mr. Dutton attended the public school, Minatare High School, and had one year in business college. During his high school days, he played basketball two years.

Since leaving school, Mr. Dutton has been engaged in the hardware and implement business, and is the owner of the Dutton Implement Company at Bridgeport and

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