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John A. Dunlap, a farmer and resident of Crawford County for the past thirty-five years, is a son of Andrew and Martha (Long) Dunlap, both natives of Cape Girardeau County, Mo., where they were married; they were among the early settlers of Crawford County, where they spent the greater part of their lives, and both were of the Cumberland Presbyterian faith. Mrs. Dunlap died in 1853, leaving seven children, and Mr. Dunlap afterward married Mrs. Elizabeth Benton, who became the mother of three daughters; he died April 9, 1876. John A. was born in Crawford County in 1854, and his advantages for an education were of the very poorest. He remained with his father until twenty-one years of age, when he worked as a farm hand until he was able to purchase a farm of his own, which occupation he has always followed; he now owns about 150 acres of land, and is an enterprising tiller of the soil. In 1881 he married Mary A., daughter of Irenus and Lucinda J. Whittenburg. She was born in this county in 1864, and died April 5, 1884, leaving one son, Carl I., born November 16, 1883. In 1885 Mr. Dunlap married Maud Whittenburg, a sister of his first wife, also born in Crawford County, in 1868. Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap have one child, Ester O., born December 31, 1885. The parents are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Politically, Mr. Dunlap is a Democrat.