| THE INTER OCEAN, (Chicago, Illinois), Saturday, April 13, 1872, p. 3: "DEATH OF JUDGE DUNN. [From the Dubuque (Iowa)Times]. Judge T. S. Wilson received a letter yesterday from ex-Gov. Dewey, of Cassville, Wis., giving intelligence of the death of his (Dewey's) father-in law), Hon. Charles Dunn, of Belmont. His death occurred on Monday. The deceased was, we believe, a Kentuckian by birth and was quite advanced in years. He came of a hardy race, and inherited much of their strength of muscle as well as force of mind and unconquerable will. He has shared may hardships. He led the early settlers of the Territory in their war on the red warriors, and carried in his leg up to the time of his death a dead token of esteem with he received from the rifle of on the Black Hawk's band. He was one on the first to be called to judicial position in the early settlement of Michigan, and -- we believe it may be said of him -- never betrayed a judicial trust. He had great courage, both moral and physical. Like Logan, Judge Dunn never felt fear. He was fond of the hunt and he never got over it. No one ever visited the old homestead of Judge Dunn, nestled under those tall trees -- planted, we believe, by the Judge's own hand -- close by the base of the highest mound among that cluster thrown up by the mound builders, a few mile northwest of Platteville, without being asked to the dinner table, and no one ever failed to notice two, three or four guns (as the case might be) standing in the corner, near the old fireplace. And of the hunting dogs -- well, Judge Dunn's were always the best. But the proprietor, the genial friend, the learned and the honored Judge, has gone where the chase is more; where the war whoop of the savage is never heard; where forensic strife shall be forgotten; where the good which men do here shall be counted each action as diadem in a crown, and the crown of Judge Dunn will not be of inferior magnitude and brilliance. Green be his memory among men. |
