“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago: Western Historical Company. 1879. MRS. LUCINDA TAYLOR, Sec. 9; P.O. Concord; born in Schoharie Co., N.Y., March 31, 1816; at the age of 10, came with her parents to Michigan, where she lived until June, 1838, when she came to Jefferson Co., Wis., with her husband, William Dunning, whom she married in Wayne Co., Mich.; the young couple settled on the farm of forty-nine acres, where Mrs. T. now lives with her son Clinton; the farm was a wilderness of timber and brush, and they suffered the usual privations incident to the times. Mr. D. was a carpenter, and built many of the substantial old buildings in his town; he had a good home fairly under way when he died of cholera, July 23, 1846, leaving four children – Jane, Miles, Charles and Clinton. Mrs. Dunning married Robert Taylor in 1851, who died in 1862. Clinton Dunning was born on the old farm Nov. 25, 1847; has spent his life and been educated in his native county, though he lived one year in Illinois, and was a raftsman on the Mississippi two seasons, he also resided two seasons in Minnesota. In Fairbault, Minn., he married, Oct. 7, 1874, Miss Ella Piper, of Sauk Co., Wis.; they have two children – Nadia Pearl and Essie. Mr. Dunning is a Republican, and one of the successful young farmers of his native county. Submitted by: Linda Pingel (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)