Windham

DUNKLEE, Adelbert Admiral

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 174-175

Adelbert Admiral DUNKLEE, farmer, Vernon, was born 10 April 1863 at Vernon 
[Windham County, Vermont], son of Nelson and Orsaline (STODDARD) DUNKLEE. 
Educated at Vernon public schools, and at Powers Institute, Bernardston 
[Franklin County], Massachusetts. Taught school in Chesterfield [Cheshire 
County], New Hampshire, and at Westminster [Windham County], Vermont, four 
terms, then took charge of his father's farm at Vernon, which he purchased 
two years later, and where he has carried on quite an extensive dairy 
business ever since. Republican; represented Vernon in the Legislature 1902; 
superintendent of schools three years; member of the school board ten years 
and chairman for several years past; town treasurer for past fourteen years; 
justice of the peace for twenty-two years; selectman, road commissioner and 
lister several times. Member of Advent Christian Church of South Vernon 
[Windham County, Vermont]; treasurer of the church several years; 
superintendent of the Sunday school more than twenty years. Was the first 
master of the State Line Grange of South Vernon. In 1886 Mr. [Adelbert 
Admiral] DUNKLEE married [Miss?] Florence Esther BROWN of Vernon; they have 
three children: Louella Florence (Mrs. C. S. TENNEY, Northfield [Franklin 
County], Massachusetts), Ernest Walter, and Warren Bixby; the latter two both 
students at Mt. Hermon School.

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