Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-11-03
PASSING OF M. F. DUNN

Friends in Villas County
Are Numerous-A Fitting
Tribute From His Home.
TO such old friends as Robert
lhurston, A. Mckenzie, Fred
Morey, Mart Hirzel and scores
OF others throughout the lake
region of Villas county, the death
OF NJ. +. Dunn of Bedford, Indi-
ana, comes as a great surprise.
For the past twenty years Mr..
Dunn has been a summer visitor
to Eagle River, Buckatoban,
Ballard, Dam and Spider lakes,
and hds widened his scope of ac-
quaintance with each yearly
visit. In July of this year Mr..
Dunn spent couple of weeks at
Thurston's resort on Dam lake,
at Buckatoban Lake resort and
and with numerous friends in
Eagle River.
Mr.. Dunn died at Bedford on
October Dist, and the Bedford
Democrat published the following
beautiful tribute to Indiana's
most prominent statesman and
lawyer:
From Bedford, Indiana, Democrat
Shortly after the shades of night
had wrapped themselves around us
last evening the angel of death spread
his broad wings and slowly descending
to earth took from our midst one of
our most prominent and honored resi-
dents.
The object of his visit was the Hon.
Moses +. Dunn, who passed away at
GAO O'Clock last evening (Oct. 21) at
his home on the north side of the pub
lie square, following an illness of
about SIX weeks of arteriosclerois
hardening of the arteries.)
The following eulogy from the pen
of the Hon. Robert N. Palmer who was
one of Mr.. Dnnn's lifelong friends, is
a marked tribute to the memory of
one of Bedford's and Indiana's most
prominent men.
Noes Fell Dunn was born in Bed
ford, Indiana, April 25, 1912 and died
October 81, 1915, aged Is years, D.
months and &c days.
He was the son of the late George
G.. and Julia Anna (FelD Dunn. Inc
father, who was for years the leading
LAWYER of Southern Indiana, and as
an orator and advocate had no sn-
uerior, either at the bar or on the
rostrum, died at the old homestead
near Bedford in 1857.
The son adopted ;he profession OF
the father and Inherited from MIN
keen judicial mind, a masterful elo~
quence and gift of language unsuf-
passed by any of his contemporaries,
great personal courage and undoubted
integrity.
Nj. Dunn attended the common
schools of his native town and by dill
gent application therein, and under
the careful training of his mother
who was a lady of great literary learn
ing and superior knowledge, he early
acquired love of books and art that
remained passion with him through
life.
In 1858 he entered Hanover college
and took the classical course and
graduated with the class of 1862.
After obtaining his college degree
be took a post graduate course at
Harvard and then visited Europe and
for three years attended the schools
of Germany and France, studying the
languages and literature of those
countries and became very proficient
in the tongues of both. being oble to
speak and read and translate fiuently
both languages.
He subsequently, acquired and spoke
and read the Spanish and Italian Ian
guages. =. :, NV
Upon his return the Civil War
ha but recently ended, and political
lines were closely drawn, and the
whole country was greatly agitatedi
and wrought up over the proposed
18th amendment to the United States
Constitution. Mr. Dunn had early
been trained in the political school OF
the Wing party, but at its death he'
like most of its followers, took up
and advocated the principles OF the
Republican party as outlined in It's
platforms of 1S56-60,6 "a.
At the solicitations of numerous
friends, and especially at the request
of the late Alex HI. Ounihue and Judge
William Duncan he became the re-
publican candidate for the legislature
in 1866.