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


CLARENCE A. DUNN. The Madera County Hospital, located one and one-half miles from 
the city of Madera, is most ably and carefully managed by Clarence A. Dunn, who has served 
as superintendent of this institution for the past four years. A man of fine physical and mental 
development, energetic and public-spirited, ever mindful of the public weal, he is performing the 
arduous duties connected with his position with commendable zeal and fidelity, and is well worthy 
of the confidence and trust reposed in him by his fellow-men. A son of Samuel Dunn, he was 
born August 10, 1858, in Atchison county, Kans. 

The lineal descendant of an old and prominent Virginian family, Samuel Dunn was born in Vir- 
ginia, but was brought up and educated in Ohio. He there learned the trade of carpenter, and also 
became familiar with the various branches of agriculture. From Ohio he moved with his fam- 
ily to Iowa, living there for four years, from 1851 until 1855. Removing then to Kansas, he 
carried on general farming and carpentering until his death. In Washington county, Ohio, he 
married Lucy Ellis, who was born in Ohio, and died on the home farm, in Kansas, in 1876. 

At the age of twenty-one years, in 1879, Clarence A. Dunn left his native state, going- 
first to Iowa, and then to Omaha. Neb., where he remained two years. Returning to Kansas, 
he continued work in that state for about ten years. Wishing, however, to improve his finan- 
cial prospects, and to enjoy the beautiful climate of California, he came to this state in 1891, lo- 
cating in Madera, where he secured a position in a sash and door factory, and also worked at the 
carpenter's trade. In 1900 he was made superintendent of the Madera County Hospital, and 
has since served in this capacity in a manner worthy of notice. The main building of the Hos- 
pital, erected in 1895, is a two-story frame building, fitted out with five wards, in which there 
are accommodations for fifty or more patients. 

Connected with this institution is a small farm, which is likewise under the management of Mr. 
Dunn, who raises all the poultry, eggs and vegetables needed for use on the place. This is a 
great help to the county, as on January 1, 1904, there were forty-nine men and one woman being 
cared for on the farm. 

While living in Iowa Mr. Dunn married Carrie Lloyd. Politically Mr. Dunn is an ardent 
supporter of the principles promulgated by the Republican party, and fraternally he belongs 
to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and to the Woodmen of the World.