Dunn, F.B.

From Lane Co Oregon

“F.B. Dunn is dead!” exclaimed the Eugene Daily Guard the afternoon of July 20, 1892. The prominent merchant (1833-1892) had died suddenly that morning, collapsing on his front porch due to a “rupture of the heart.” He had arrived in Oregon in 1853 without a dollar to his name. Within two years he was running his own mercantile business, and at the time of his death owned over 4,000 acres of land. A school director and former mayor, he was active in nearly every element of civic life. Public offices and private businesses in Eugene closed for his funeral, said the Guard. “The procession was the largest one that ever wended its way to a cemetery from this city.”