Robert Steed Dunn (1877)

Born 16 Aug 1877 in Newport, Rhode Island

Ancestors

Biography

Robert Steed Dunn was born on 16 August 1877 to Thomas Dunn and Kate Hunter.^[1][2]

Robert was unmarried.^[2]

Career

• Graduated in 1898 from Harvard.^[2]
• Newspaper correspondent, explorer, author and world traveler^[2]
• War correspondent in 1904 on the Russian-Japanese front^[2]
• Traveled with Pershing's expedition into Mexico in 1916^[2]
• Lieutenant (j.g.) in the U.S. Navy during World War I. Served abroad from 1917 to 1919. ^[2]
• Served as the U.S. High Commissioner in Antolian and Caucasian, post World War I affairs, in Constantinople from 1919 to 1922, the eyes and ears of Admiral Mark L. Bristol.^[2][3]
• Headed the first ascent of Mt. Wrangell in Alaska in 1908^[2]
• Author of The Shameless Diary of an Explorer, The Youngest World, Five Fronts, Margery Nawn, Horizon Fever, and Least Love.^[2]

Residence

• Katonah, New York^[2]

Research

• Other writings of Robert's found here: http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/s/s1723.htm#A41711
• The Papers of Robert Steed Dunn in the Dartmouth College Library
• Foreign correspondents in Korea during the Russo-Japanese War - Includes images of Robert.

Sources

1. ↑ Charles Henry Jones, Genealogy of the Rodman Family (1620-1886); (Philadelphia, Alles, Lane and Scott, 1886) p. 201. [Copy available at (https://archive.org/details/genealogyofrodma00jone).]
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10} John Morgan Bullard, The Rotches; (New Bedford, Cabinet Press, 1947) p. 416, 424. [Copy available at (https://archive.org/details/rotchesbull00bull) or (http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005693070).]
3. ↑ Heath W. Lowry, Institute of Turkish Studies, Inc., Washington, D.C. "The Journal of Ottoman Studies, V.; Richard G. Hovannisian on Lieutenant Robert Steed Dunn." (http://dergipark.ulakbim.gov.tr/oa/article/view/5000116811/5000108740) Instanbul, 1986. [PDF is in English although website is in Turkish. Accessed 18 March 2016.]