Wayne County Biographies



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Washington I. Dulin

Washington I. Dulin was born in Wayne County, Ind., in 1842, a son of William and Beulah (Brown) Dulin, his father a native of Maryland, and his mother a native of New Jersey. His father came West in 1828 and located in Richmond where he engaged in mercantile business, afterward spending eighteen years on a farm near the city, then returning again to the city, where he died in 1874. Although he was superintendent of a farm, and of a large number of slaves while a resident of Maryland, he was always thereafter an active Whig and Republican. Our subject is the fourth of five children. He lived with his parents on the farm until he was sixteen, received an academical education in Richmond, since which time he has engaged in mercantile pursuits, eleven years being devoted to the lumber trade. He has served two terms as a member of the City Council, and is now one of the Directors of the Richmond Business Men's Exchange, and has always taken an active interest in the growth and prosperity ot his native city. Mr. Dulin was married in 1862 to Rebecca, youngest daughter of Thomas Newman.

Source:
History of Wayne County, Indiana. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. 1884. Volume 2