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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: DUNLAP, Robert
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Sandy Spradling
SSpradling@AOL.com
September 25, 1999
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History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative
Citizens
W.S. Laidley
Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL.
1911
p. 419
ROBERT DUNLAP, who conducts a general store at Mammoth, was born in
Washington District, Kanawba County, March 5, 1864, and is a son of Frank and
Sarah (Davis) Dun-lap, and a grandson of Rev. Thomas Davis, who, at one time
owned the valley of Davis Creek.
Frank Dunlap was a well known farmer on Davis Creek, in Loudon District and
owned the property that now belongs to his son, Rome E. Dunlap. His death
occurred in 1891 at the age of fifty-four years. He married Sarah Davis, who
survived to the age of seventy-three years. They had the following children
horn to them Peter C.; Emma E., who is the wife of Leonard Holstein; and
Robert, Stanhope F., Andrew J., Rome E., Golden H., Alice and James B. Alice
married Hubert Martin.
Robert Dunlap remained on the home farm until he was sixteen years of age, in
the mean-while attending the local schools. He then became a miner for the
Black Band Iron and Coal Company, which work he followed for ten years on
Davis Creek. From there he went to the Winifrede Coal Company for four years,
and from there to the Campbell's Creek Coal Company, with which lie continued
until 1897, when he opened a store, on a small scale, at Mammoth, his bill of
goods amounting to $82. Later he moved his stock to Campbell's Creek, but in
October, 1907, returned to Mam-moth and bought his present store building and
subsequently erected his comfortable resi-dence. He also owns stock in some
coal and timber land in MaIden District on Campbell's Creek, which is very
valuable. He is one of the prosperous business men of the place.
Mr. Dunlap was married July 2, 1892, to Miss Mary Stone, a daughter of
William M. and Ursly (Nelson) Stone, both of whom are deceased. Mr. and Mrs.
Dunlap have one son, Marcus Talmadge. In politics Mr. Dunlap is a
Republican. He is a member of Lodge No. 242, Odd Fellows, at Mammoth, and
Haddoth Lodge No. 170, Knights of Pythias, at Putney, W. Va.
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