Hi All, I'm new to this list. I have this article with a little history. It is an interview with my great-aunt, Alice Dunn McCullough. If anyone recognizes any of the names mentioned in this article, I would appreciate hearing from you. Thanks. Mary G. [email protected] Excerpt of an article published in the Wichita [KS] Eagle, written by Victor Murdock, circa 1925: STORY OF SIX OLD CHAIRS IN WICHITA WHICH CAME FROM NEW JERSEY COLONY Original Set of Rush-bottomed Antiques Which Came to Kansas in an Early Day and Are Still Here With Alice McCullough (Mrs. Richard) this morning I stood with respect and admiration before an ancient rush-bottomed chair---one of those simple colonial affairs which afforded the early American about the only waking rest her ever had, and that at mealtime. The chair Mrs. McCullough has, she has known all her life. It is one of an original set of six and she knows where the other five are, for the dispersal of the set has taken place during her life time which covers a period of eighty-three years. An account of the career of those chairs is as a thread running through the history of this part of the United States. Mrs. McCullough was born a Dunn, at Lockland, in Hamilton County, Ohio, just outside Cincinnati. The Dunns were there early. They came from Gloucester County, New Jersey and they had been early in Gloucester County, too. How the Dunns came to Ohio is an interesting story in itself. They must have followed into the wilderness a mighty man in those days, the Reverend John Collins, a born Quaker destined to drive the first stakes of the Methodist Church in the then "Northwest Territory." John Collins rode from Southern New Jersey into "The Northwest Territory" in 1802. He was then thirty-three years old. Two years later he preached the first Methodist sermon in Cincinnati to twelve persons "in an upper room." A relative of John Collins, famous in his era, was a great aunt of Mrs. McCullough. This was Mary Bailey Dunn. She had the six rush-bottomed chairs from the Colonies. When she died she left them to a relative, Sarah Dunn Scudder. When Sarah Dunn Scudder died she left them to Mrs. McCullough. Mr. and Mrs. McCullough came to Wichita in 1884 and the chairs came with the family. Mrs. McCullough gave one of the chairs to her brother, the late Lewis Dunn and his son Willis Dunn, Wichita, has it. Another she gave to Collins Dunn, deceased, and his survivors have it. A daughter, Gertrude McCullough Toler (Mrs. Ed. Toler) Anthony, Kansas, was given one as were two members of the Dunn family here in Wichita.