Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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COLONEL T. S. DUNN, 
 
of Santa Monica, is a retired officer of the regular army. He is a native of 
Indiana, and is the youngest son of Judge Williamson Dunn, who was a well-known 
and prominent man in Jefferson County, Indiana. He represented the people of 
that county in the State Legislature for several terms, and was judge of the 
circuit court of Jefferson County. He was born in what is now the State of 
Kentucky, but then a part of Virginia, December 25, 1781. He was the first white 
child born in that region. He married Miss Miriam Wilson, also a native of 
Kentucky, and of Scotch-Irish descent. By her he had eleven children. The 
subject of this sketch was educated at the common schools and also attended 
college. In 1850 he married Miss Harriet Tipton, of Logansport, Indiana. She is 
the daughter of General John
Tipton, who was at the battle of Tippecanoe, in the war of 1812. He was born in 
Sevier County, Tennessee, August 14, 1786, and was a great man in council and 
field during the early history of the State of Indiana. In 1846 the subject of 
this sketch entered the army against Mexico, in the First Indiana Volunteers, 
and served about one year. He then engaged in farming until the breaking out of 
the civil war, when, May 9, 1861, he entered the service with the Ninth Indiana 
Regiment. July 4, 1861, he was made Captain in the regular army, and served 
through the war in the Army of the Potomac. His first engagement was at the 
second battle of Bull Run. He also fought at Antietam, Fredericksburg, South 
Mountain, Gettysburg and the Wilderness. At the last-named place he was wounded 
in the left arm. He was subsequently sent to Indianapolis as mustering and 
disbursing officer, until the close of the war. He was then ordered to Virginia, 
and remained till 1869, when he was ordered to Arizona as Captain of a company 
to protect the frontier against the Indians. After three years he was sent to 
Oregon, and was there two years, within which time he was brevetted for his 
conduct in the field and made Major of the Eighth Infantry in the regular army. 
From there he was ordered to Montana, and from there to Ft. Yuma, California. In 
1878 he was retired, since which time he has resided in the beautiful Santa 
Monica. The Colonel is now in his sixty-eighth year, well preserved. Nature has 
been very kind to him in giving him a cheerful disposition and a contented mind. 
He has served his country well, has been a brave and valiant soldier, and is in 
every way worthy the honors conferred on him by the Government.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 732
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler