John Dunlop

• General Notes
  • Argyle, Scotland
    From the book "HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, COUNTIES OF WHITE AND PULASKI
    INDIANA. Historical and Biographical. Illustrated. Chicago; F. A. Battey
    & CO., Publishers. 1883."
    page 251, Union Township, White County.
    "JOHN DUNLAP is a native of the Highlands of Scotland, born in Argylshire
    December 8, 1808. He was reared to manhood in his native country,
    received only an ordinary schooling, and the fall of 1834 shipped on
    board the brig "NORA," bound from Grennock to New York, arriving at the
    destined port after a voyage of six weeks and three days. On this same
    vessel DAVID BRECKENRIDGE and family took passage, and, on their arrival
    in this country Mr. DUNAP and the BRECKENRIDGE family found homes in
    Washington County, Ohio, where they engaged in farming. It was here on
    the 20th of November, 1835, that Mr. DUNLAP married CHARLOTTE
    BRECKENRIDGE, who was born February 12, 1814, in Argylshire, Scotland. In
    1851, Mr. DUNLAP and wife moved from Washington County, Ohio, to
    Tippecanoe County, Indiana, remaining there only a few months. The fall
    of 1851, he came to White County and purchased 300 acres of new land in
    Union Township, and the succeeding spring moved his family to this place,
    erected a house and has lived here ever since. He and wife have had
    twelve children born to them, only the following named are yet living -
    CHARLOTTE (Mrs. J. P. HENDERSON), MARY (Mrs. GEORGE COWGER), ANDREW,
    MARTHA and MARGARET (Mrs. CHARLES PAGE). Mr. and Mrs. DUNLAP have been
    hard-working and industrious people, have passed through many of the
    inconveniences of pioneer life, and by industry and economy have secured
    a good home to shelter them in their old age. Mr. DUNLAP, although passed
    threescore and ten years, is yet hale and hearty, and is one of the
    county's best citizens. He is a Democrat in politics, has served Union
    Township five years as Trustee, and he and wife are members of the
    Presbyterian Church."