California Biographies

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

Source:
History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176


THOMAS McKEE DUNGAN. An ambitious and energetic young man who holds a high 
place in the citizenship of Visalia is Thomas McKee Dungan, whose ability has already 
brought to him the discharge of various public duties. He is a native of Washington county, 
Va., where his birth occurred January 4, 1874. His father, Thomas Nelson Dungan, was also a 
native of that state, where he engaged in farming for many years. In 1894 he came to Cali- 
fornia and located at Exeter, Tulare county, where he bought a ranch and planted it to or- 
anges. He is now retired at the age of sixty-four years, making his home in Exeter in en- 
joyment of the fruits of his years of active citizenship. While a resident of Virginia he served 
as a soldier in the Confederate army. His wife, formerly Josephine McKee, also a native of the 
Old Dominion, died in California, leaving a family of four sons and two daughters, of whom 
Thomas McKee Dungan is the fourth in order of birth. 

Thomas McKee Dungan received his education in the common schools in his native state, 
where he made his home until 1894, in which year he came to California with his father. With 
his brother, J. S. Dungan, he established the Bonnie Brae nurseries near Exeter, which have 
now a capacity of seventy thousand trees, all of citrus fruit. They have made a financial success 
of their work, having built up a wide patronage through the county. In addition to these inter- 
ests, Mr. Dungan is acceptably filling the office of county coroner and public administrator, to 
which position he was appointed in 1904 to complete an unexpired term. To accept this posi- 
tion he resigned that of deputy assessor. In Exeter, Cal., Mr. Dungan married Sallie Seabright, a 
native of Virginia, and born of this union are two sons, Seabright and Lee. Fraternally Mr. Dungan 
is identified with the Woodmen of the World, and politically adheres to the principles advocated 
in the platform of the Democratic party. He has been and is active in political circles and a successful 
and helpful future is predicted for him.