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English (THOMAS DUNN an American author)

THOMAS DUNN, an American author; born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 29, 1819; was graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1839; admitted to the bar in 1842; engaged in journalism in New York in 1844-1859; then resumed medical practice in Newark, N. J. He was a member of the state assembly in 1863- 1864, and of Congress in 1891-1895. He was the author of "Ben Bolt," an exceed ingly popular ballad (1843); "Walter Woolfe" (1842): "Ambrose Fecit, or the ENGLISH LANGUAGE Peer and the Painter" (1869); "American Ballads" (1882); "Book of Battle Lyrics" (1886); "Jacob Schuyler's Millions" (1886); "Old Glory" song (1898); etc. He died in 1902.