MyLines: Dungan Ancestry / Genealogy

 

    the Dungan Ancestry of the Descendants of William Dungan & Frances Latham

 

  as compiled by:

Howard O. Folker, of Philadelphia; and presented before the Bucks County Historical Society, May 25, 1909.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                      THE DUNGAN FAMILY

              


April 16, 1787, and married in 1810 Isabella McFarren, a woman of superior attainments and of Scotch-Irish descent, who was born in North Hampton County, Pa., March 22, 1791. David was a farmer and lived at Frankfort Springs, Beaver County, Pa. He was :a mean of extensive reading and was a soldier in the War of 1812, serving as sergeant major in Captain Robert Leeper's company in the 138th Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Col. Robert Miller. They marched to Lake Erie to watch that the British did not cross the lake on the ice, as was apprehended they might do. The campaign was one of much severity in that cold climate. For his services he was granted a warrant far one hundred and sixty acres of land, which was located in Iowa. He was also granted a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month, dated February 17, 1878. He was Indoctrinated in the Baptist faith but did not unite with that church. His wife, Isabella, being brought up in the Presbyterian faith and strongly attached to it, David united with her in joining that Church. The church to which they belonged was that of Dr. Andrew McCurdy, Briceland's Cross Roads, now called Florence, Washington County. David and his neighbors, at a date soon after the War of 1812, established a circulating library at the village of Frankfort now called Frankfort Springs This library was not large but consisted of a collection of choice books and was instrumental in producing a higher order of intelligence in that place than was to be found at that period in the surrounding communities. David died March 15, 1880. His will is dated June 15, 1872, and was admitted to probate May 20, 1880.
  8.-Levi; born 1791; married Margaret Cameron, died January 22, 1870, at Jackson, Ohio.
David D. and Isabella (Mefrren) Dungan had the following issue:-
   1.-Levi; born April 25 1812. Was a physician, unmarried and died August, 1847, in Monroe County, Ia.
   2 -William McFarren; born April 7, 1814; died April 22, 1817.
   3.-Jane; born .Tune 22, 1816; married John G. Dungan, a distant relative, and died August 28, 1859, in Brook County, Va.
   4.-William M.; born August 11, 1818; married Jane Caughey May 13, 1841.
   5.-Sarah A.; born July 27, 1820; married Theodore Dennis; died August 24, 1855, in Beaver County. Had but one child, which died in infancy.
   6.-Warren Scott; born September 12, 1822; married Abby Kingman Tractor April 3, 1859, at Chariton, Ia. Latter died there September 21 1881.
   7.-Mary McFarren; born October 25, 1825; died March 13, 1893; unmarried.
   8.-Isabel M.; born April 25, 1828; died unmarried at Black Oak Springs, Beaver County, October 6, 1906,.
   9.-Margaret H.; born April 27 1830; died March 4, 1854 while attending Beatle's Female Seminary, Steubenville, Ohio; unmarried.

For the purpose of this paper it is not necessary to speak at any length of any of the foregoing except the sixth child, Warren Scott, who married Miss Procter. He was born at Frankfort Springs and way educated at the local academy. He made his home with his parents until he was twenty-eight years old, teaching school part of the time. In the fall of 1851 he went South and the first winter was tutor in the family of Ricketts and Harris on their sugar plantation, five miles east of Baton Rouge, La. He then went to Panola, Miss., where he conducted a select school for two years, the latter of which he utilized by fading law in the office of Col. Calvin Miller, a leading lawyer of northern Mississippi. He then returned to Pennsylvania and read law in the office of Roberts & Quay, in Beaver. where he was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1856. Immediately thereafter he located in Chariton, Ia., and still resides there. In the fall of 1861 he was elected to the State Senate from the district composed of the Counties of Lucas and Monroe, Ia., for the term of four years, but resigned his seat in the Senate to accept a, commission in the Union Army. He was appointed lieutenant colonel of the 34th Iowa Volunteers and served as such during the war of the rebellion, and was brevetted "Col. U. S. V." for gallant conduct in the rear of Mobile, Ala. His last six months of his military service was as inspector general of the Second Division, 13th Army Corps....................

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