Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Dunham, Thomas Couser May 30, 1829 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, page 267
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley
Thomas Couser Dunham was born in Springhill township, Fayette county,
Penna, May 30, 1829, and is of Irish Descent. His parents were Jonas
Dunham and Elizabeth Couser Dunham, both natives of Fayette county,
Penna. Thomas C Dunham was raised in a rural district, and received but
little schooling, as he had no opportunity to attend any schools except
the indifferent subscription schools then in existence in the State.
Leaving school at nineteen years of age, he engaged in farming on a
rented farm of his own of forty five acres.
Mr Dunham was married October 19, 1849, to Miss Sarah O'Neil, daughter
of Henry O'Neil, a native of this county and a miller by trade.
Nine children were born to them: Henry Dunham, Francis V Dunham,
Elizabeth Dunham, Emma Dunham, James Dunham, John R Dunham, William J
Dunham, Zachariah T Dunham, and Minnie S Dunham, of whom six are living.
His wife died March 1, 1882, and was a very estimable woman. Soon
after his wife's death he sold his farm and purchased a house, and a
couple of acres of good ground, where he now lives.
He is a worthy member of the Presbyterian church at Mt Moriah. As a boy
he was industrious and dutiful to his parents. As a man he has always
been industrious and frugal. He has by his own hard work accumulated some
property, and raised a large family of very respectable children.
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