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•ceived a fair common school education 

 in the schools of the neighborhood, and 

 at the age of twenty-two years he began 

 farming on his own account and fol- 

 lowed that vocation for five years. In 

 1872 he engaged in the hide and tallow 

 business in a building near the Doyles- 

 town flour mill, and in the following 

 year built a factory near the present 

 Doylestown electric light plant. Yiy 

 strict attention to business he built up a 

 prosperous business, and prospered in 

 spite of repeated reverses. His factory 

 was totally destroyed by fire June 29, 

 18S0. Undismayed by this untoward 

 disaster, he at once erected another 

 factory near his present residence, just 

 ■east of the borough line, and equipped 

 it with the most improved machinery for 

 utilizing the several products of dead 

 animals. In 1892 he purchased a tract 

 of seventy-five acres, one mile west of 

 Doylestown, and moved his factory 

 thereon and added a fertilizer plant, 

 both of which he conducted on a large 

 scale. He now experienced another 

 great loss in the destruction of his plant 

 by fire on April 8, 1897, but he again re- 

 built it immediately, and has since con- 

 •ducted the business with entire success, 

 assisted by his son-in-law, William 

 Worthington. Mr. Dungan erected his 

 present residence on Maple Avenue in 

 1878, and has resided there ever since. 

 In 1899 Mr. Dungan had the misfortune 

 to lose his left arm by having it drawn 

 into the machinery in his factory, neces- 

 sitating an amputation near the shoulder. 

 He has, however, accustomed himself 

 to the loss and continues to personally 

 conduct his business. In politics Mr. 

 Dungan is a Democrat. He is a deacon 

 of the First Baptist Church of Doyles- 

 town. He is a member of Doylestown 

 Lodge No. 24s, F. and A. M., Doyles- 

 town Chapter No. 270, R. A. M., and 

 Mary Commandery, No. 36, Knights 

 Templar, of Philadelphia. He was mar- 

 ried February 21, 1867, to Rachel Hea- 

 ton, of Moreland, Montgomery county, 

 Pennsylvania, and the union was blessed 

 with one child, Effie F. H., now the wife 

 of William Worthington. Rachel Hea- 

 ton Dungan died December 22. 1898. 

 aged fifty-eight years, and Mr. Dungan 

 married. March 11, 1903, Anna, daugh- 

 ter of George Martin, of Doylestown 

 township. 



DUNGAN FAMILY. Reverend 

 Thomas Dungan, the great-grandfather 

 •of John Dungan, mentioned in the pre- 

 ceding sketch, was born in London. Eng- 

 land, about the year 1632. His father, 

 William Dungan, was a merchant of 

 London, and was of a cadet branch of 

 the Dungans of Dublin, Ireland, en- 

 nobled by Queen Elizabeth. The senior 

 branch ended under the following cir- 

 cumstances: William Dungan, Earl of 



Limerick, died in 1698, without leaving 

 issue, in consequence of the death of his 

 son, Lord Walter Dungan, colonel of 

 dragoons at the Boyne, in 1690. The 

 title of Earl of Limerick then came to 

 Colonel Thomas Dungan, brother of the 

 Earl of Limerick. Thomas, under the 

 will of his father, Sir John Dungan, 

 baronet, inherited an estate in the 

 Queen's county, and served in the army 

 of Louis XIV till 1678 as colonel of an 

 Irish regiment, worth to him about 

 £5.000 per annum. He had from 

 Charles II a life pension of £500 a year; 

 was made lieutenant-governor of Tan- 

 gier, in Morocco, and subsequently gov- 

 ernor of New York in America. The 

 title of Earl of Limerick ceased in the 

 Dungan family on the death of Colonel 

 Thomas Dungan in December, 1715, he 

 leaving no heirs. William Dungan died 

 in London in 1636, leaving four children, 

 Barbara. William, Frances, and Thomas. 

 The mother of Rev. Thomas Dungan 

 was Frances Latham, daughter of Lewis 

 Latham, sergeant falconer to Charles I. 

 She had married (first) Lord Weston 

 and (second) William Dungan, and soon 

 after the latter's death married Captain 

 Jeremiah Clarke, and with him and her 

 children emigrated to New England and 

 settled in Newport, Rhode Island, where 

 Captain Clarke became prominent, serv- 

 ing in the provincial assembly and fill- 

 ing other official positions. He died in 

 1651, and his widow married (fourth) 

 Rev. William Vaughan, pastor of the 

 first Baptist church in America. INIrs. 

 Vaughan died in September, 1677, at the 

 age of sixty-seven years. 



Thomas Dungan came to Newport, 

 Rhode Island, in 1637, with his mother 

 and stepfather, Captain Clarke, and was 

 reared and educated in that colony, prob- 

 ably receiving his education in a school 

 established there by Roger Williams. 

 His second stepfather being a Baptist 

 clergyman he imbibed that faith and 

 became an eminent Baptist preacher. He 

 was a representative in the colonial as- 

 sembly of Rhode Island, 1678-81, and a 

 sergeant in the Newport militia. He be- 

 came one of the patentees of East 

 Greenwich, -Rhode Island, but sold his 

 real estate there in 1682 and removed 

 with a colony of Welsh Baptists from 

 Rhode Island to Cold Spring. Falls, 

 township. Bucks county, and established 

 the first Baptist church in Pennsylvania. 

 He died in 1688. He married in New- 

 port. Rhode Island, Elizabeth Weaver, 

 daughter of Sergeant Clement and 

 Mary (Freeborn) Weaver. Clement 

 Weaver was a member of colonial as- 

 sembly in 1678, and his father-in-law, 

 William Freelsorn served in the same 

 body in 1657. Elizabeth (Weaver) Dun- 

 gan, died at Cold Spring. Bucks county, 

 in 1600. The children of Rev. Thomas 

 and Elizabeth (Weaver) Dungan were 

 as follows: 



