Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886

Thomas Dunn, a well known and prosperous business man of Lawrenceburg, Tenn., was born in Louisville, Ky., January, 1841, and is a son of James and Maria (Sculy) Dunn, both natives of Ireland. Our subject was reared and educated in the city of Louisville. When but nineteen years of age he began the mercantile life as a clerk, and so continued until the war broke out. He enlisted as a private in Company A, Louisville Legion, at the beginning of the war, and served three years in the Federal Army as a soldier, when he was mustered out and accepted the post of soldiership in the federal forces at Pulaski, Tenn. May, 1865, he came to Lawrenceburg and engaged in the general merchandising business with Mr. W. H. Dustin, with whom he has remained ever since. The firm, having met with more than ordinary success, carries the largest stock of general merchandise goods in the county, and controls the leading trade in this line in the town and county. The firm extended the scope of their business and engaged rather extensively in the cotton trade, conducting the Eagle and also Crescent cotton factories in the county. In 1873 Mr. Dunn married Sarah T. Sykes, a native of Lawrence County, Tenn., and the fruits of this union were four children. Our subject is strictly independent in politics, and a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

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