Moses Fell Dunn

Moses Fell Dunn (1842-1915) was a pioneer of Bedford, Indiana. He owned at least 180 acres of land in what is now the Spider Creek area.

Early History
Moses Fell Dunn was born on a farm in Bedford, Indiana in 1842, to the Fell-Dunn Family. Moses was a hard worker on the farm. He went to Hanover College in 1862, 5 years after his father's death. He also studied at Harvard and in Germany and France. He was fluent in several languages and loved to travel. He took several trips around the world, and traveled around the United States as well. He loved fishing. He practiced law with his brother George Grundy Dunn, Jr. He was a Republican, serving in the state legislature from 1866 to 1869 and a candidate for U.S. Representative from Indiana in 1870. He and his brother also operated a local limestone quarry. He never married, but left large amounts of land to Purdue University and to Bedford's Masonic Order. He donated $15,000 to The Bedford City Hospital was renamed Dunn Hospital in his honor. A prominent family in the Bloomington community, Indiana University purchased land from the Dunn family in order to relocate the university to its current site after the devastating fire of 1883 at the Seminary Square location. Moses didn't want the land to go, but he decided to.