JEFF DUNBAR, books, stationery and news, is a native of Canton, Stark Co., Ohio, and son of R. A. Dunbar, who has been for many years a prominent citien and connected with the Sheriff's office of that county. Upon the breaking-out of the rebellion, our subject, who was at that period employed in the mercantile business at Tiffin, Ohio, returned to Canton and enlisted in Company I, Nineteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He saw four years' active and severe service, participating in several of the leading battles of the war -- Corinth, the Atlanta campaign and the Texas expedition of the Third Division of the Fourth Corps. He was mustered out in October, 1865, at which time he was acting as Orderly Sergeant. In 1866, he came to Kendallville, and in association with A. Koontz established his present business. The partnership lasted only a few months, since whih time he has been in business alone. His stock is choice, well welected, and complete, and his establishment of great benefit to thecity of Kendallville. Goodspeed, Weston A, Richard Collins, Thomas R. Marshall, W. L. Matthews; Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana: historical and biographical; Chicago, F. A. Battey & Co., 1882, p. 300. |
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