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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 483]

    CALEB BUNN - This enterprising and successful agriculturist, like
    many of Iowa's substantial citizens, was not born on American soil,
    but in England.  The time of his birth was November 20, 1845, and
    his parents are JAMES and MARY ANN BUNN.  CALEB was four years old
    when the family emigrated to this country and settled in the State
    of Ohio, in Cuyahoga County; there they remained six years, and then
    came to Dubuque, Iowa.  JAMES BUNN was an expert mechanic, and was
    the first to invent the apparatus now used for changing mails on
    fast trains, but by fraud was deprived of the advantage which he
    should have received from this useful invention.  This apparatus
    was entered at Stationary Hall, England, November 20, 1848, but
    the British Government refused to patent it.  His son, our subject,
    has the original draft of the apparatus in his possession at the
    present time.  He also has the contract between his father and the
    British Government for placing the apparatus on the first line on
    which it was used in England.  During the late war CALEB BUNN en-
    listed in December, 1863, in the First Iowa Cavalry, Company L,
    and served two years and three months when he was honorably dis-
    charged.  He returned to his home, and January 16, 1868, he was
    married in Dubuque County, Iowa, to Miss JOSEPHINE DE LONG, a
    daughter of JOHN and MATILDA (KIBBY) DE LONG.  Mrs. BUNN'S father
    was a prominent early settler of Dubuque County.  Both parents died
    when she was a child, and she was brought up by DAVID LOVELACE, Esq.,
    who was her uncle.  In 1871 Mr. BUNN came to Ida County, Iowa, and
    resided there until 1878, when he located in his present home.  He
    owns 160 acres of land, highly cultivated and improved; he devotes
    himself to agricultural pursuits exclusively, and has been very
    prosperous.  He and his wife are the parents of two sons:
    JOHN WILLIAM, born October 9, 1868; and CHARLES W., born February
    20, 1870.  Both sons reside at home, assisting their father during
    the summer, and operating a steam thresher during the autumn.
    Mr. BUNN affiliates with the Republican party, and is a member of
    General Geddis Post, No. 423, Holstein, Iowa.  Mr. BUNN is a man of
    high integrity of character, and much respected by a wide circle of
    acquaintances in the county.


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