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Archie Cossett DUNN

Male 1889 - 1981  (92 years)


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  • Name Archie Cossett DUNN 
    Birth 14 Feb 1889  Pepin County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • February 14th on all of his military records.
    Gender Male 
    Death 10 Aug 1981  Hennepin County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Plot: R, 0, 1309
    Notes 
    • Single, living at home, a clerk for a transfer company in the 1910 census.

      He registered for the draft in Minneapolis, as Archie Cossett Dunn, on June 5, 1917. He was single and supported his mother. He was a cabinet maker. He was described as of medium height and build with blue eyes and brown hair.

      He enlisted on 22 Jul 1918 and was released on 9 Dec 1918 according to his BIRLS death file.

      According to MOMS, an Archie C Dunn married a Myrtle Taylor in St. Louis County on 10 Jul 1919.

      In the 1920 census, he may be the Archie Dunn, 31, who lives in Maywood, Cook County, Illinois, where he is an office clerk for a safety device company. His wife Myrtle is one year older and they have a son, age 10, perhaps William Derwood, b. Minnesota. That Archie, however, had both of his parents born in Wisconsin.

      A Myrtle Dunn, b. 20 Feb 1889, died in Fresno, California, on 21 Apr 1973. She was born in Illinois. Her Social Security number had been issued in Oklahoma.

      In the 1940 census, he lives in Minneapolis wife his wife Mabel. Archie, 51, is a house painter seeking work. His wife Mabel, 43, works as a checker at a laundry. He and his wife have 7th grade educations. They own the house they live in, at 1509 East 28th Street, worth $2500, the same house in which they both lived 5 years earlier. They have no one else in their household although they do apparently rent out part of their house to another family.

      He was a Sergeant in the U.S. Army in World War I.
    Person ID I13506  Don Carlson's Tree
    Last Modified 16 May 2014 

    Father Frank Smith DUNN,   b. 24 May 1846, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Sep 1932, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years) 
    Mother Eliza Ann FLEMING,   b. 19 Jun 1847, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Nov 1923, Wabasha County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Marriage Nov 1882 
    Family ID F10079  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mabel C,   b. 25 Mar 1897, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Mar 1978, Hennepin County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years) 
    Family ID F10083  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart