Dunlap Family Papers
This collection contains material related to the Dunlap family of Tennessee. Included is a typed copy of a letter written by Dr. J. G. M. Ramsey regarding his plans to author a book about the family; the roll for a club in Paris, Tennessee to which Dunlap family members belonged; a handwritten deed documenting J. H. Dunlap's purchase of land in Henry County; and a newspaper clipping describing the story of Ripley E. Dunlap, a "forty-niner" who left Paris in search for gold in California.
Dates
- 1876-1881, undated
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Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)
Abstract
This collection contains material related to the Dunlap family of Tennessee. Included is a typed copy of a letter written by Dr. J. G. M. Ramsey regarding his plans to author a book about the family; the roll for a club in Paris, Tennessee to which Dunlap family members belonged; a handwritten deed documenting J. H. Dunlap's purchase of land in Henry County; and a newspaper clipping describing the story of Ripley E. Dunlap, a "forty-niner" who left Paris in search for gold in California.
Biographical / Historical
Hugh Dunlap, born in Ireland in 1769, traveled to the American colonies and ultimately settled in the area that would become Tennessee around 1792. Dunlap married Susannah Gilliam (1775-1859) in 1794; together, they had at least 15 children, many of whom became lawyers and politicians in Tennessee. The Dunlap family relocated multiple times, moving west through Tennessee and living at times in Roane County and later Henry County. Hugh Dunlap died in 1846.
Dr. J. G. M. Ramsey was a Knoxville historian that founded the East Tennessee Historical Society in 1834. Ramsey studied the Dunlap family because of their influence in Knoxville's settlement and early Tennessee history.
Arrangement
This material is in one folder.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository