Alexander Dunlop (biography)

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Taken from History of the State of Kansas, by William G. Cutler


ALEXANDER DUNLOP (deceased) was born in Scotland in 1827, emigrated to America.  In 1851, locating in Washington County, Ill., where he remained until 1866, when he emigrated to Kansas, locating in Anderson County.  In 1869, he located a claim in Howard (now Elk) County before the survey was made, and there were no railroads within 100 miles, his claim was in Sections 32 and 33, watered by Hitchin Creek.  He afterward added eighty acres to the place, making a farm of 240 acres, which he had nicely improved, with 100 acres in cultivation, fenced the whole place, planted a good orchard, and put up a good stone house 24 x 18, and had but just completed his improvements when his death occurred, in the winter of 1878.   He was one of the best of citizens, and a man highly respected.  He was married in 1867, at Garnett, Kan., to Miss Mary Whitsen, of that place, a native of Scotland.  They were blessed with three children, viz., George, Robert, and James.  Mrs. Dunlop, with the assistance of her husband's brother, has been carrying on the farm since the death of Mr. Dunlop.