Augustus A. Dunn

Augustus A. Dunn, son of Dr. Charles A. and Rebecca (Moore) Dunn, was born in Georgia, moved with his widowed mother to Ohio in 1831, and early in 1836 settled in what is now West Jersey township, erected a log cabin, in which the mother and family — who came in September of that year — took up their residence. He was elected first sheriff of this county, in 1839, subsequently graduated in medicine and practiced at Cambridge, Ill., until 1862, when he enlisted in Company D, One-hundred-and-twelfth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. His left hand was shot away at Kelly's Ford, Tenn., and again wounded at Franklin; the results of the latter leading to his death, March 2, 1869, in his fifty first year, he then residing at Chicago.