DD's thanks go to Mrs. A. S. Andersen, Los Angeles, Cal., who sent [ ]the clipping that appears [below] & was originally printed in a New Albany, Ind. newspaper between 1891 & 1895, & which recaps the career of her grandfather, Rev. F.B. Dunham, a former rector of the Episcopal church in New Albany.

Francis B. Dunham, the sixteenth rector of the parish, was born on Sept. 7, 18[44] at Berlin, Worcester county, Maryland. His father was Francis S. Dunham, of Coventry, Connecticut, and his mother was Leah A. Hardy, of Washington, D.C. Mr. Dunham was educated at Buckingham Academy, in Berlin, a school of local reputation, and of which his father was the principal for many years. He entered Trinity College, at Hartford, Conn., in 1862, remaining there until the end of the junior yer, when the hardships engendered by the war compelled him to leave college in order that he might assist in the support of his widowed mother and younger brothers. He accepted a clerkship in the Baltimore post office, meanwhile studying for the church, and remaining there until May, 1869. He then became a candidate for holy orders and continued his studies under the Rev. Dr. Rankin, of St. Luke's church, Baltimore. He was ordained deacon in 1869, by Bishop Whittingham and raised to the priesthood by the same bishop in 1871. He assisted the Rev. Dr. Rankin until March, 1875, when he accepted the rectorship of St. John's church, at Mt. Morris, N.Y. In 1878 he came West, and after spending a short time in Indianapolis he became our rector, remaing with us three years, closing his rectorate on the 28th day of February, 1881, removing to South Bend, where he became the rector of St. James church. In consequence of a very severe attack of pneumoni and the development of bronchial trouble, he was ordered by his iphysician to go South, and in November, 1884, accepted the rectorship of Holy Trinity church, Gainesville, Fla. In 1888, sickness compoelled him to leave a new rectory and a flourishing parish. He went to the Gulf coast and acted as the co-adjutor of the record of Christ church, Pensacola, Fla. A severe illness there proved conclusively that the South ws not for him the land of health, and immediately upon his recovery he removed to Chicago, where he became the rector of the Church of the Redeemer, at the corner of Washington avenue andFifty-sixth streets, where he still lives, sufficiently well to be the rector of a growing and prosperous parish. While in New Albany he married a daughter of the late John P. Cromie. As a rector here, he worked faithfully and efficiently for the good of the parish, and it is worthy of lasting record in our history that it was by his exertions and in accord with his wise counsel that the Mite Missionary society was established. This chapter may be fitly closed by his own words, lately addressed tl me: --"Long may the Mite Missionary society stand. If I had nothing else to look back with pleasure in my New Albany pastorate, the memory of having been one of the instrucments in the founding of that society would be sufficient."

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In order to represent the Dunham family tree accurately, DO needs to have information on more than just one or two branches. While we have a lot of material on some family members, we have nothing at all on others. That is why we need your help. Please send in an old photo or a new one, of a grandparent or a grandchIld (photos duplicated &
returned promptly unless they are extra copies). If you run across an old letter or clipping, send DD a copy of it.
Here are just a few of the items we would be particularly grateful to have: 1/ photo of Mary H.Seymour MacCormack, wife of Daniel MacCormack head of Immigration & Naturalization Services under Pres F. S. Roosevelt. 2/ Address and photo of Dorothy Dunham Curtis. 3/ photo of John Handy Dunhan, Jr. 4/ photo of Barry Stinson. 5/ photos of the children of Dr.F. S. Hulse. 6 / photo of Mary Frances Teague. 7/ photo of Sy1via Dunham Birge. 8/ Photo of Frank C. Dunham, Jr. 9/ Photos of any very young members of the family. 10/ Melinda Hyde Dunham lived until 1855. It seems very likely that she would have been photographed at some time. Did anyone ever see a real old Daguerreotype that might be of her??