Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Dunlap, William R. 31 1830 - December

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WILLIAM R. DUNLAP, a successful business man and a representative farmer of
Derry township, is a son of Andrew and Mary (Robinson) Dunlap and was born in
Washington township, Westmoreland county, Pa., December 31, 1830. Among those
who immigrated over a century ago from Derry county, Ireland, to Washington
township was John Dunlap (grandfather), who married a Miss Sloan, a relative of
the Sloans of Salem township. He followed farming and his eight children were
all born in Ireland. The youngest child Andrew Dunlap (father), was a babe when
his father immigrated. He was reared in Washington township where he lived till
1840 when he sold the home farm, removed to Butler county, Pa., and died in 1870
at the age of eighty-five years and five months. He was a farmer and a democrat
and sent a substitute to the war of 1812 by the name of Stewart. He married Mary
Robinson who died in 1840. To them were born seven children: John, of Butler
county, Pa.; Rebecca, wife of Andrew Dunlap; Nancy J., widow of James Davis,
resides in Illinois; Andrew, Jr., of California: Eliza M., widow of a Mr.
Morris, who was killed in the late war; and Andrew, twin brother of Eliza M.,
resides with John in Butler county.

     William R. Dunlap was reared on a Washington township farm and attended the
common schools. Leaving school he went to Warren county, Pa., and was engaged
for five years in shipping lumber to Pittsburg and Cincinnati. At the end of
this time he returned to Westmoreland county and began farming. In 1854 he
bought a farm in Derry township, which he sold four years later and purchased a
Salem township farm on which he resided for ten years. He then (1868) disposed
of it and bought a farm in Derry township, on which he has lived ever since and
to which he has added by additional purchases until it now contains four hundred
acres of land. His farm is well improved and his tasteful residence is fitted up
with all modern conveniences.

     In the beginning of the year 1860 he united in marriage with Nancy J. Barr,
who was a daughter of John Barr and died February 24, 1883. On March 7, 1889,
lie married Mattie J. Kenley, daughter of David Kenley (see his sketch). Of his
first marriage were born ten children: Rev. John B., born September 12, 1860,
and with his wife, Mary E. (Stokes) Dunlap, are Presbyterian missionaries to
Siam; Mary E., born January 4, 1862, married to J. M. Gilson, March 10, 1885,
and has two children; Sarah N. and William R.; Robinson E., born December 19,
1863, married Lucinda B. Mewherter and has two children; Mabel G. and Elsie F.;
Martha J., born March 7, 1866, became the wife of William Mewherter, on March 7,
1888, and has one child Roxie W.; Charles H.,  born April 23, 1868, and was
married to Lizzie Kirkpatrick, December 3, 1S89; Clark, born March 11, 1870;
Louisa H., born March 30, 1872; Emory E., born September 27, 1874 died August
14, 1877; Nora G., born March 25, 1877; and Hubert, born March 30, 1879.

   W. R. Dunlap is a republican, while all his brothers are and his father and
grandfather were democrats. He is a trustee of “Old Salem” Presbyterian church,
an honorable citizen and a hospitable and generous man.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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