U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dunnington, George A. (1858-1900) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: Prominent Men of West Virginia Author: George Wesley Atkinson, LL.D. and Alvaro F. Gibbens, A.M. Published by W. L. Callin, Wheeling, W.Va. 1890 Pages 863-865 GEORGE A. DUNNINGTON was born in Fairmont, Virginia, July 17, 1858. His father, R. C. Dunnington, is a prominent business man in that place. George received a fair common school education, and at the age of fifteen was apprenticed to learn the printer's trade in the office of The West Virginian. Later, when the fire of 1876 destroyed the business portion of Fairmont, burning the newspaper offices, he formed a partnership with Clarence L. Smith to continue the Index as a business venture. It was raised from the ashes and published during the campaign of 1876, but being a Republican, Mr. Dunnington was dissatisfied with the Democracy of the paper, sold out his interest and went West. After a brief residence in the employ of a grain merchant in Indianapolis, Indiana, he returned to Fairmont, West Virginia, and in partnership with O. S. McKinney, printed the Supreme Court work. Next he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and edited a dramatic and society weekly. Resigning this he accepted a Government position in Washington, and after three years service, returned to his native State, and edited the Grafton Sentinel. "While at the National Capital he was the regular correspondent of the Oil City Derrick, of Pennsylvania, and his letters were widely copied. For three years he was Secretary of the West Virginia Republican Association of Washington City. In 1880 he wrote and published the History of Marion County, a neat octavo volume, which had a large local sale. For the past two years he has been news editor of the Wheeling Daily Intelligencer. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Information: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Death-register, Marion County WV 1900, page 85, record 350 Name: Geo. Dunnington date-of-death: March 20, 1900 at age 42 Marital-status: Married Place-of-death: Fairmont, W.Va. Cause: Complication of Diseases Burial: Woodlawn --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1900 Census, Marion County WV Fairmont Ind. School Dist, ED:86, Page No. 26, Stamped 396C Lines 12-21; Enum-Dwelling #229; Enum-Family #230 DUNNINGTON, Robert C. (age 42), Sewing Maching Agt, Va-Va-Md ", Mary A. (age 43), wife, Keeping house, Pa-NJ-Md ", George A. (age 21), son, Printer, Va-Va-Va ", Laura C. (age 19), dau, at-school, Va-Va-Va ", Wallie (age 17), son, Clerk in store, Va-Va-Va ", Richard H. (age 14), son, at-school, WV-Va-Va ", Margaret E. (age 9), dau, WV-Va-Va ", Fannie B. (age 5), dau, WV-Va-Va ", Jane E. (age 64), mother, Md-Md-Md LOTT, Margaret (age 77) mother-in-law, Md-Md-Md ---------------------------------------------------------------------