BIO: Fred S. DUNHAM, Centre County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania: Including 
the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion: Containing 
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Etc. 
Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1898.
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  FRED S. DUNHAM, editor and proprietor of the Weekly Hornet, published 
at Howard, Centre county, was born at Lock Haven, Penn., November 7, 
1862, a son of David S. and Mary A. (Blake) Dunham, natives of Indiana 
county, Penn., and Portland, Maine, respectively.  The mother died in 
Beach Creek, Clinton Co., this State, in November, 1876, but the father 
is still living.
  Our subject remained at home until after the death of his mother and 
then began working in a pottery at Howard in order to pay off the 
indebtedness on a home which his mother had started to build.  Out of 
the fifty cents per day which he received for his services, he drew out 
only twenty cents, letting the remainder go on the debt.  Besides 
himself he also supported his father and sister, the former being an 
invalid at that time.  At the end of two years he left the pottery, and 
entered the rolling mills of B. Lauth, in Howard, where he remained for 
four years, a part of the time serving as watchman.
  Mr. Dunham next became a fireman in a sash factory in Addison, 
Steuben Co., N. Y., where he remained for one year, and on the 
expiration of that time returned to Howard.  For three years he was 
employed at painting and other odd jobs, and then went to Altoona, 
Penn., where he ran an engine in the planing-mill of John Cline for a 
year, when it was destroyed by fire.  Returning to Howard, he worked in 
a sawmill for twelve months, and next began learning the printer's 
trade in the office of the Bellefonte Republican, where he was employed 
for two years.  For the following six years, he was with the Bellefonte 
Gazette, but in 1894, he came to Howard and established the Weekly 
Hornet, which he has since conducted with good success, having a 
circulation of about sixteen hundred copies.  He also does job 
printing, and the work turned out is first-class in every particular.  
Being possessed of an energetic spirit, good executive ability and 
excellent judgment, he has met with a well-deserved success in this 
undertaking.
  On August 1, 1883, Mr. Dunham was married to Miss Clara K. Neff, and 
to them were born two children: William N., who died at the age of six 
years; and Alverda M., who died at the age of eight.  Mr. Dunham is an 
ardent supporter of the principles of the Republican party; socially, 

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he is a member of the Patriotic Sons of America, and the Independent 
Order of Heptasophs, both of Bellefonte.  Religiously he holds 
membership in the Evangelical Church.  He is a self-made man, whose 
advancement has come through his own efforts, and who by industry, and 
honest toil has won a place among the representative business men of 
Howard.