This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dunlap, Chamberlain, Cowdrey, Gerard, Mitchell Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hi.2ADI/1738 Message Board Post: Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, pp. 825-826 Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1888 JAMES H. DUNLAP, a prominent citizen of Tippecanoe Township, was born in Ross County, Ohio, October 9, 1822, a son of Robert and Zeruha (Mitchell) Dunlap. In 1829 the family came to Indiana, and located on Mitchell's Branch in Carroll County, where the father died in 1844. The mother died in Tippecanoe County in 1847. They were the parents of nine children, of whom six are deceased. The names of the three yet living are - James H., Mrs. Harriet Northcut, and Mrs. Melvina Severson. James H. Dunlap, the subject of this sketch, was reared to manhood in Carroll County, amid the scenes and incidents of pioneer life. He was first married in June, 1845, to Miss Lucinda Chamberlain, who died in 1857, leaving at her death the following children - Mollie, Dexter, Hattie (now a successful teacher), Melinda and Mattie. Mr. Dunlap was married a second time, in 1863, to Mrs. Harriet (Cowdrey) Gerard, and to this union three children were born - Jerome, Ora, and Jane, the latter now deceased. Mr. Dunlap was a second time bereaved by the death of his wife in 1879. Mr. Dunlap served a year in the war of the Rebellion, enlisitng in September, 1861, in Company G, Forty-sixth Indiana Infantry. He participated in the engagements at New Madrid, Island No. 10, Fort Pillow and St. Charles. After receiving an honorable discharge he returned to his home. In 1867 he located on his present farm on section 5, Tippecanoe Township, where he has a pleasant home, and fifty acres of choice land. In politics he is a Republican. In religion he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.