The Advocate-Messenger (Danville, Kentucky)29 Jul 1929, Mon • Page 1
FLAG AT HALF MAST TODAY FOR DR. DUNLAP
As a mark of appreciation for his long and invaluable service to the community which he served for many years as a member of the Board of Council and on several occasions as acting Mayor, the flag of the City Hall by order of Mayor W.O. .McIntyre will be flown at half-mast today, the day of DR. Fayette Dunlap’s funeral. No man in the city was more highly regarded and there was no one who has ever devoted himself so faithfully to the study of the history of Danville, his birthplace, which he knew in greater detail than anyone living.
The Advocate-Messenger (Danville, Kentucky)29 Jul 1929, Mon • Page 1
Dr. Fayette Dunlap
Dr. Fayette Dunlap, one of the most highly esteemed and beloved citizens of the community, died peacefully at his home at 8:20 o'clock Saturday night. His wife, Mrs. Lin Lithgow Dunlap, his son, Richard William Dunlap, two brothers and a sister, Richard P. and Lee Dunlap and Mrs. Dudley M. Bowman, of Kansas City and Harry Hocker, his cousin and member of his household for many years, were at his bedside. A third brother, James B. Dunlap, of Los Angeles, Calif also survives.
Funeral services will be held this (Monday) afternoon at four o'clock at the Christian church, of which he was a life-long member and in which he had been an officer for many years. Dr. Madison A. Hart, pastor of the church, assisted by Dr. Roy Kleiser, pastor or the Centenary Methodist Episcopal church, will conduct the services. Burial will be in Bellevue cemetery. The following will act as pallbearers: Nelson Rodes, W. Logan Wood, June Hocker, of Hustonville, E. P. Faulconer, Jr James Knox, Banks Hudson, J. A. Robinson and E. W. Cook.
As Dr. Dunlap counted among his devoted and loyal friends those of all ages, condition and color, in Danville and in the surrounding towns and countrywide, to whom he had devoted a life-time of service, his family will feel themselves privileged to welcome all his friends who may wish to pay their respects to his memory at the services at the church and in the cemetery.
Gifted by inheritance and by bountiful Providence with rare qualities of heart and mind that few are privileged to own, Fayette Dunlap devoted his gifts happily and unstintedly to the serve of his fellowmen.
His deeply planted love of his native soil and of his own Kentucky people led him back to them for his life’s mission after a most thorough training in his profession and a natural and unusually felicitous gift in literary expression had equipped him for high conquest anywhere in ether of the two fields.
Those who knew him best-and these are drawn from the ranks of both the high and the lowly-realize that above the knowledge of high intellectual attainments, beyond the skill he had in his professional capacity, suppressing his pride in rugged pioneer ancestry, was a deep humanitarian, an honest, unaffected love of man, woman, and child, his fellow beings.
Happy and genial by nature, ever kind, courteous and thoughtful to all, Dr Dunlap readily gained and held the affection and respect of everyone with whom he came in contact in this community, throughout the State and elsewhere. It is safe to say mat nu citizen of Danville within memory has been so universally loved.
There is no one who knew him who will not freely bear witness to his nobility of soul, his integrity of purpose, his gentleness of spirit, his high Christian character and his truly remarkable mental gifts and attainments.
His qualities inspired the same devoted respect if he mingled with his fellow historians of the Filson Club in Louisville or if he as the country doctor drove his horse through the swollen waters of the Hanging Fork on a wintry night to reach a Negro cabin where his heart and his skill could be of service to his human kind without thought of gain.
An evidence of the kindly helpfulness of his nature was the interest he took in young physicians and in young people in general. There are many doctors today scattered over the country who in their success owe much to him for aid and sage advice he so freely gave them in their younger days and there are many people young today others young in other days who affectionately remember his many kindnesses.
There are innumerable men and women who will feel a personal loss his passing that can never be repaired. The community in which lived and labored- and it is inclusive of all that beloved Kentucky soil which his forefathers and those of his friends struggled for and fought, to attain-is immeasurably poorer now tht he is gone.
But with the modesty and consideration that was characteristic him always he would wish that ever personal friends and the community as a whole remember him in the full possession of these happy and unselfish traits which continued to the day of his death, and think not of their own sorrow but of the peace that is given by God to His faithful servants.
Fayette Dunlap was born on March 3, 1855, in the house now occupied by the family of William Anderson on the Southwest corner of Third and Lexington streets. His father was Dr. Richard William Dunlap, who was born in 1817, received his education at the Transylvania University and had become a distinguisged practitioner of his profession and a man of force in the community at an early age. He had already assisted in the establishment of the Christian Church in Danville and was to become one of the founders and president of the Kentucky Medical Association.
Fayette Dunlap’s mother was Sarah Jackson Bailey, of Lincoln County, whose ancestor, Captain John Bailey was one of Kentucky’s earliest pioneers and was an officer under George Rogers Clark in the immortal expedition that won the Ohio River Country for the young Republic. Sarah Bailey was alos a descendant od the Carroll of Maryland, of whom Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, a singer of the Declaration of Independence, was the leader in a notable group.
Thrust in Early life into the confusion of the War Between the States, Fayette Dunlap retained memories of his youthful transfer to Bloomfield, Kentucky, by his parents where the warm Southern sympathies of his family would be subjected to less embarrassment than in their native city, of the return to residence here during the war in the home of an uncle, Daniel W. Jones, in the house now owned by Gentry Caldwell on the Harrodsburg Road, where the with childish awe and excitement, witnessed the secret arrival of his wounded half-brother Major Watkins Dunlap, of the Southern Armies, from the field of Perryville. Watkins Dunlap survived to ride with Morgan’s Men, receive yet other wounds, refuse Reconstruction, and become a Colonel in the Egyptian Army, with a fortress on Nile Dedicated to his memory.
After the war the boy’s childhood home was a house of Colonial construction on the site now occupied by the Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church. In this house James G. Birney, twice a candidate for President on an anti-slavery ticket, had been born in 1792. Here were gathered the memories of Fayette Dunlap’s own and brothers’ and sisters’ childhood.
From it he went to Centre College to be graduated in the class of 1874, of which it is believed he was the last surviving member. There followed his medical training at Tulane University, New Orleans, where as a young quarantine officer of the port he endured the ordeal of an attack of yellow fever, during the great epidemic there.
In the completion of his medical training, Fayette Dunlap studied at the University of Pennsylvania, at Harvard, at Heidelberg in Germany and at the University of Vienna. It was his son's pleasure, shortly after the World War, to be the guest of the them Rector of Heidelberg University, Herr Hoops a college mate of his father’s, who recalled with a wistful pleasure and philosophical detachment the charm of student days so long before national arrogance had made him a technical enemy of his fellow student from Kentucky.
After his return to Danville to practice medicine with his father, the life and career of Dr. Fayette Dunlap became interwoven in the fabric of this community's history. By industrious application and frugal life he advanced his career though it was ever subordinated to the call at any hour of any poor and needy person in distress. By the unselfish expenditure of his genial, kind and witty personality he advanced his spiritual fortunes which have never ceased to grow and are limited only by the mercy of God and the memory of man.
Dr. Dunlap established an acquaintanceship by correspondence with Woodrow Wilson when both were young and maintained this connection as it ripened into friendship through the years. It was not however until the summer of Wilson’s first campaign that they met in person. Dr. Dunlap was ever a warm admirer of the future War President’s profound scholarship and high personal and political ideals.
Conscientious always in his civic duties he served many useful years as a member of the city council and was acting Mayor of Danville on a number of occasions. Given the recognition in his profession that he never sought but earned and accepted as in his line of duty, he became the year-after-year president of the Boyle County Medical Society, the President Central Kentucky Medical Association, the frequent delegate to medical meetings, both state and national, and the valued contributor to medical journals.
Among the most cherished interests of his life was that of promoting the fame of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, "The Father of Ovariotomy." He never wearied of extolling the service of this great surgeon, and fellow townsman his work to humanity and marveled to the end by sheer genius this courageous doctor on the frontier of civilization in an operation that had baffled the best surgeons of Europe and in his success established a technique in that particular form of surgery that has saved countless lives and is followed today by specialists in New York and London and by missionary doctors on the banks of the Yangtze and the Congo.
Due in no small measure to Dr. Dunlap’s enthusiasm and perseverance proper honors in memorial stone and in public recognition have been given Dr. McDowell in Danville and throughout the medial world. His honorary membership in the McDowell Medical Society of Cincinnati was even a source of pleasure and pride to him. As recently as last February Dr. Dunlap presided over a company if distinguished surgeons from all parts of the country, gathered here to commemorate the unveiling at the same time of a bust of Dr. McDowell in Washington.
Throughout his entire career but more particularly in his later life, Dr. Dunlap devoted much time and study to the early history of Danville and the State. By his indefatigable research and ordered collection of his materials he became the best informed historian of this period in Kentucky.
So complete was his knowledge of the personalities and exploits of the pioneers that won Kentucky and the Ohio Valley for the nation that he became the oracle for all who sought information on any phase of our region’s history in the early days and was ever ready to contribute his time and knowledge on occasions of historical celebration. On many phases that were models of felicitous English and valuable sources of historical information.
Dr. Dunlap was twice married. His first wife was Martha Williams, of Bloomington, Illinois, whom he married in 1895 and to whom his son Richard W Dunlap, was born. Her untimely death in 1903 was a great sorrow to her host of friends in the community by which she was affectionately remembered.
In 1906 Dr. Dunlap and Miss Lin Lithgow, of Louisville, were married. For almost a quarter of a century their home here has been a center of hospitality in the social life of Danville.
For more than a year Dr. Dunlap’s friends had remarked that he was failing somewhat in physical vigor though his fine qualities of mind and his genial and optimistic spirit were never impaired. About two months ago the severe attacks of an abdominal disorder which were to cause his death began. Under the care of Dr Rice Cowan, his friend and professional associate of many years, he received the most solicitous attentions here, in Lexington and at the Norton Infirmary in Louisville where he spent a week in June for medical treatment. The last month of his life was spent at his home on the corner of Third and Lexington streets where he lived since the beginning of the century.
The entire community joins with the members of his family in mourning in the death of Dr. Fayette Dunlap an irreparable loss.
The Advocate-Messenger (Danville, Kentucky)29 Jul 1929, Mon • Page 2
DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN DIES
In the death of Dr. Fayette Dunlap Danville loses one of its most distinguished, and useful citizens. He was one of the most prominent physicians and surgeons in Central Kentucky and had lived a life of valuable service to the people of this section of the state. He came from a distinguished line of ancestry and lived up to the traditions and teachings of the honorable pioneers of the early history of Kentucky.
Dr. Dunlap was highly educated, having graduated from Centre College, Tulane University and completed his training In Germany and Vienna..., He was probably the best posted man in the community upon the question of local history and had contributed many historic articles to magazines and newspapers, as well as being a contributor to many medical Journals.
In other columns of today's Messenger a sketch of the life of Dr. Dunlap is given. No citizen of Danville has ever done more for this community than this good man, who at all times was ready, to help every worthy cause. He was kind and gentle, yet strong and vigorous in his opposition to those things that were not for the best of the community, and was not afraid to use his influence for those things he believed to be right. Danville can ill afford to lose men like Dr. Dunlap, but be had lived along and useful life and is sure to be rewarded for his many acts of kindness and for the great good h had done for his community.
FLAG AT HALF MAST TODAY FOR DR. DUNLAP
As a mark of appreciation for his long and invaluable service to the community which he served for many years as a member of the Board of Council and on several occasions as acting Mayor, the flag of the City Hall by order of Mayor W.O. .McIntyre will be flown at half-mast today, the day of DR. Fayette Dunlap’s funeral. No man in the city was more highly regarded and there was no one who has ever devoted himself so faithfully to the study of the history of Danville, his birthplace, which he knew in greater detail than anyone living.
The Advocate-Messenger (Danville, Kentucky)29 Jul 1929, Mon • Page 1
Dr. Fayette Dunlap
Dr. Fayette Dunlap, one of the most highly esteemed and beloved citizens of the community, died peacefully at his home at 8:20 o'clock Saturday night. His wife, Mrs. Lin Lithgow Dunlap, his son, Richard William Dunlap, two brothers and a sister, Richard P. and Lee Dunlap and Mrs. Dudley M. Bowman, of Kansas City and Harry Hocker, his cousin and member of his household for many years, were at his bedside. A third brother, James B. Dunlap, of Los Angeles, Calif also survives.
Funeral services will be held this (Monday) afternoon at four o'clock at the Christian church, of which he was a life-long member and in which he had been an officer for many years. Dr. Madison A. Hart, pastor of the church, assisted by Dr. Roy Kleiser, pastor or the Centenary Methodist Episcopal church, will conduct the services. Burial will be in Bellevue cemetery. The following will act as pallbearers: Nelson Rodes, W. Logan Wood, June Hocker, of Hustonville, E. P. Faulconer, Jr James Knox, Banks Hudson, J. A. Robinson and E. W. Cook.
As Dr. Dunlap counted among his devoted and loyal friends those of all ages, condition and color, in Danville and in the surrounding towns and countrywide, to whom he had devoted a life-time of service, his family will feel themselves privileged to welcome all his friends who may wish to pay their respects to his memory at the services at the church and in the cemetery.
Gifted by inheritance and by bountiful Providence with rare qualities of heart and mind that few are privileged to own, Fayette Dunlap devoted his gifts happily and unstintedly to the serve of his fellowmen.
His deeply planted love of his native soil and of his own Kentucky people led him back to them for his life’s mission after a most thorough training in his profession and a natural and unusually felicitous gift in literary expression had equipped him for high conquest anywhere in ether of the two fields.
Those who knew him best-and these are drawn from the ranks of both the high and the lowly-realize that above the knowledge of high intellectual attainments, beyond the skill he had in his professional capacity, suppressing his pride in rugged pioneer ancestry, was a deep humanitarian, an honest, unaffected love of man, woman, and child, his fellow beings.
Happy and genial by nature, ever kind, courteous and thoughtful to all, Dr Dunlap readily gained and held the affection and respect of everyone with whom he came in contact in this community, throughout the State and elsewhere. It is safe to say mat nu citizen of Danville within memory has been so universally loved.
There is no one who knew him who will not freely bear witness to his nobility of soul, his integrity of purpose, his gentleness of spirit, his high Christian character and his truly remarkable mental gifts and attainments.
His qualities inspired the same devoted respect if he mingled with his fellow historians of the Filson Club in Louisville or if he as the country doctor drove his horse through the swollen waters of the Hanging Fork on a wintry night to reach a Negro cabin where his heart and his skill could be of service to his human kind without thought of gain.
An evidence of the kindly helpfulness of his nature was the interest he took in young physicians and in young people in general. There are many doctors today scattered over the country who in their success owe much to him for aid and sage advice he so freely gave them in their younger days and there are many people young today others young in other days who affectionately remember his many kindnesses.
There are innumerable men and women who will feel a personal loss his passing that can never be repaired. The community in which lived and labored- and it is inclusive of all that beloved Kentucky soil which his forefathers and those of his friends struggled for and fought, to attain-is immeasurably poorer now tht he is gone.
But with the modesty and consideration that was characteristic him always he would wish that ever personal friends and the community as a whole remember him in the full possession of these happy and unselfish traits which continued to the day of his death, and think not of their own sorrow but of the peace that is given by God to His faithful servants.
Fayette Dunlap was born on March 3, 1855, in the house now occupied by the family of William Anderson on the Southwest corner of Third and Lexington streets. His father was Dr. Richard William Dunlap, who was born in 1817, received his education at the Transylvania University and had become a distinguisged practitioner of his profession and a man of force in the community at an early age. He had already assisted in the establishment of the Christian Church in Danville and was to become one of the founders and president of the Kentucky Medical Association.
Fayette Dunlap’s mother was Sarah Jackson Bailey, of Lincoln County, whose ancestor, Captain John Bailey was one of Kentucky’s earliest pioneers and was an officer under George Rogers Clark in the immortal expedition that won the Ohio River Country for the young Republic. Sarah Bailey was alos a descendant od the Carroll of Maryland, of whom Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, a singer of the Declaration of Independence, was the leader in a notable group.
Thrust in Early life into the confusion of the War Between the States, Fayette Dunlap retained memories of his youthful transfer to Bloomfield, Kentucky, by his parents where the warm Southern sympathies of his family would be subjected to less embarrassment than in their native city, of the return to residence here during the war in the home of an uncle, Daniel W. Jones, in the house now owned by Gentry Caldwell on the Harrodsburg Road, where the with childish awe and excitement, witnessed the secret arrival of his wounded half-brother Major Watkins Dunlap, of the Southern Armies, from the field of Perryville. Watkins Dunlap survived to ride with Morgan’s Men, receive yet other wounds, refuse Reconstruction, and become a Colonel in the Egyptian Army, with a fortress on Nile Dedicated to his memory.
After the war the boy’s childhood home was a house of Colonial construction on the site now occupied by the Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church. In this house James G. Birney, twice a candidate for President on an anti-slavery ticket, had been born in 1792. Here were gathered the memories of Fayette Dunlap’s own and brothers’ and sisters’ childhood.
From it he went to Centre College to be graduated in the class of 1874, of which it is believed he was the last surviving member. There followed his medical training at Tulane University, New Orleans, where as a young quarantine officer of the port he endured the ordeal of an attack of yellow fever, during the great epidemic there.
In the completion of his medical training, Fayette Dunlap studied at the University of Pennsylvania, at Harvard, at Heidelberg in Germany and at the University of Vienna. It was his son's pleasure, shortly after the World War, to be the guest of the them Rector of Heidelberg University, Herr Hoops a college mate of his father’s, who recalled with a wistful pleasure and philosophical detachment the charm of student days so long before national arrogance had made him a technical enemy of his fellow student from Kentucky.
After his return to Danville to practice medicine with his father, the life and career of Dr. Fayette Dunlap became interwoven in the fabric of this community's history. By industrious application and frugal life he advanced his career though it was ever subordinated to the call at any hour of any poor and needy person in distress. By the unselfish expenditure of his genial, kind and witty personality he advanced his spiritual fortunes which have never ceased to grow and are limited only by the mercy of God and the memory of man.
Dr. Dunlap established an acquaintanceship by correspondence with Woodrow Wilson when both were young and maintained this connection as it ripened into friendship through the years. It was not however until the summer of Wilson’s first campaign that they met in person. Dr. Dunlap was ever a warm admirer of the future War President’s profound scholarship and high personal and political ideals.
Conscientious always in his civic duties he served many useful years as a member of the city council and was acting Mayor of Danville on a number of occasions. Given the recognition in his profession that he never sought but earned and accepted as in his line of duty, he became the year-after-year president of the Boyle County Medical Society, the President Central Kentucky Medical Association, the frequent delegate to medical meetings, both state and national, and the valued contributor to medical journals.
Among the most cherished interests of his life was that of promoting the fame of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, "The Father of Ovariotomy." He never wearied of extolling the service of this great surgeon, and fellow townsman his work to humanity and marveled to the end by sheer genius this courageous doctor on the frontier of civilization in an operation that had baffled the best surgeons of Europe and in his success established a technique in that particular form of surgery that has saved countless lives and is followed today by specialists in New York and London and by missionary doctors on the banks of the Yangtze and the Congo.
Due in no small measure to Dr. Dunlap’s enthusiasm and perseverance proper honors in memorial stone and in public recognition have been given Dr. McDowell in Danville and throughout the medial world. His honorary membership in the McDowell Medical Society of Cincinnati was even a source of pleasure and pride to him. As recently as last February Dr. Dunlap presided over a company if distinguished surgeons from all parts of the country, gathered here to commemorate the unveiling at the same time of a bust of Dr. McDowell in Washington.
Throughout his entire career but more particularly in his later life, Dr. Dunlap devoted much time and study to the early history of Danville and the State. By his indefatigable research and ordered collection of his materials he became the best informed historian of this period in Kentucky.
So complete was his knowledge of the personalities and exploits of the pioneers that won Kentucky and the Ohio Valley for the nation that he became the oracle for all who sought information on any phase of our region’s history in the early days and was ever ready to contribute his time and knowledge on occasions of historical celebration. On many phases that were models of felicitous English and valuable sources of historical information.
Dr. Dunlap was twice married. His first wife was Martha Williams, of Bloomington, Illinois, whom he married in 1895 and to whom his son Richard W Dunlap, was born. Her untimely death in 1903 was a great sorrow to her host of friends in the community by which she was affectionately remembered.
In 1906 Dr. Dunlap and Miss Lin Lithgow, of Louisville, were married. For almost a quarter of a century their home here has been a center of hospitality in the social life of Danville.
For more than a year Dr. Dunlap’s friends had remarked that he was failing somewhat in physical vigor though his fine qualities of mind and his genial and optimistic spirit were never impaired. About two months ago the severe attacks of an abdominal disorder which were to cause his death began. Under the care of Dr Rice Cowan, his friend and professional associate of many years, he received the most solicitous attentions here, in Lexington and at the Norton Infirmary in Louisville where he spent a week in June for medical treatment. The last month of his life was spent at his home on the corner of Third and Lexington streets where he lived since the beginning of the century.
The entire community joins with the members of his family in mourning in the death of Dr. Fayette Dunlap an irreparable loss.
The Advocate-Messenger (Danville, Kentucky)29 Jul 1929, Mon • Page 2
DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN DIES
In the death of Dr. Fayette Dunlap Danville loses one of its most distinguished, and useful citizens. He was one of the most prominent physicians and surgeons in Central Kentucky and had lived a life of valuable service to the people of this section of the state. He came from a distinguished line of ancestry and lived up to the traditions and teachings of the honorable pioneers of the early history of Kentucky.
Dr. Dunlap was highly educated, having graduated from Centre College, Tulane University and completed his training In Germany and Vienna..., He was probably the best posted man in the community upon the question of local history and had contributed many historic articles to magazines and newspapers, as well as being a contributor to many medical Journals.
In other columns of today's Messenger a sketch of the life of Dr. Dunlap is given. No citizen of Danville has ever done more for this community than this good man, who at all times was ready, to help every worthy cause. He was kind and gentle, yet strong and vigorous in his opposition to those things that were not for the best of the community, and was not afraid to use his influence for those things he believed to be right. Danville can ill afford to lose men like Dr. Dunlap, but be had lived along and useful life and is sure to be rewarded for his many acts of kindness and for the great good h had done for his community.
The Advocate-Messenger (Danville, Kentucky)29 Jul 1929, Mon • Page 1
FLAG AT HALF MAST TODAY FOR DR. DUNLAP
As a mark of appreciation for his long and invaluable service to the community which he served for many years as a member of the Board of Council and on several occasions as acting Mayor, the flag of the City Hall by order of Mayor W.O. .McIntyre will be flown at half-mast today, the day of DR. Fayette Dunlap’s funeral. No man in the city was more highly regarded and there was no one who has ever devoted himself so faithfully to the study of the history of Danville, his birthplace, which he knew in greater detail than anyone living.
The Advocate-Messenger (Danville, Kentucky)29 Jul 1929, Mon • Page 1
Dr. Fayette Dunlap
Dr. Fayette Dunlap, one of the most highly esteemed and beloved citizens of the community, died peacefully at his home at 8:20 o'clock Saturday night. His wife, Mrs. Lin Lithgow Dunlap, his son, Richard William Dunlap, two brothers and a sister, Richard P. and Lee Dunlap and Mrs. Dudley M. Bowman, of Kansas City and Harry Hocker, his cousin and member of his household for many years, were at his bedside. A third brother, James B. Dunlap, of Los Angeles, Calif also survives.
Funeral services will be held this (Monday) afternoon at four o'clock at the Christian church, of which he was a life-long member and in which he had been an officer for many years. Dr. Madison A. Hart, pastor of the church, assisted by Dr. Roy Kleiser, pastor or the Centenary Methodist Episcopal church, will conduct the services. Burial will be in Bellevue cemetery. The following will act as pallbearers: Nelson Rodes, W. Logan Wood, June Hocker, of Hustonville, E. P. Faulconer, Jr James Knox, Banks Hudson, J. A. Robinson and E. W. Cook.
As Dr. Dunlap counted among his devoted and loyal friends those of all ages, condition and color, in Danville and in the surrounding towns and countrywide, to whom he had devoted a life-time of service, his family will feel themselves privileged to welcome all his friends who may wish to pay their respects to his memory at the services at the church and in the cemetery.
Gifted by inheritance and by bountiful Providence with rare qualities of heart and mind that few are privileged to own, Fayette Dunlap devoted his gifts happily and unstintedly to the serve of his fellowmen.
His deeply planted love of his native soil and of his own Kentucky people led him back to them for his life’s mission after a most thorough training in his profession and a natural and unusually felicitous gift in literary expression had equipped him for high conquest anywhere in ether of the two fields.
Those who knew him best-and these are drawn from the ranks of both the high and the lowly-realize that above the knowledge of high intellectual attainments, beyond the skill he had in his professional capacity, suppressing his pride in rugged pioneer ancestry, was a deep humanitarian, an honest, unaffected love of man, woman, and child, his fellow beings.
Happy and genial by nature, ever kind, courteous and thoughtful to all, Dr Dunlap readily gained and held the affection and respect of everyone with whom he came in contact in this community, throughout the State and elsewhere. It is safe to say mat nu citizen of Danville within memory has been so universally loved.
There is no one who knew him who will not freely bear witness to his nobility of soul, his integrity of purpose, his gentleness of spirit, his high Christian character and his truly remarkable mental gifts and attainments.
His qualities inspired the same devoted respect if he mingled with his fellow historians of the Filson Club in Louisville or if he as the country doctor drove his horse through the swollen waters of the Hanging Fork on a wintry night to reach a Negro cabin where his heart and his skill could be of service to his human kind without thought of gain.
An evidence of the kindly helpfulness of his nature was the interest he took in young physicians and in young people in general. There are many doctors today scattered over the country who in their success owe much to him for aid and sage advice he so freely gave them in their younger days and there are many people young today others young in other days who affectionately remember his many kindnesses.
There are innumerable men and women who will feel a personal loss his passing that can never be repaired. The community in which lived and labored- and it is inclusive of all that beloved Kentucky soil which his forefathers and those of his friends struggled for and fought, to attain-is immeasurably poorer now tht he is gone.
But with the modesty and consideration that was characteristic him always he would wish that ever personal friends and the community as a whole remember him in the full possession of these happy and unselfish traits which continued to the day of his death, and think not of their own sorrow but of the peace that is given by God to His faithful servants.
Fayette Dunlap was born on March 3, 1855, in the house now occupied by the family of William Anderson on the Southwest corner of Third and Lexington streets. His father was Dr. Richard William Dunlap, who was born in 1817, received his education at the Transylvania University and had become a distinguisged practitioner of his profession and a man of force in the community at an early age. He had already assisted in the establishment of the Christian Church in Danville and was to become one of the founders and president of the Kentucky Medical Association.
Fayette Dunlap’s mother was Sarah Jackson Bailey, of Lincoln County, whose ancestor, Captain John Bailey was one of Kentucky’s earliest pioneers and was an officer under George Rogers Clark in the immortal expedition that won the Ohio River Country for the young Republic. Sarah Bailey was alos a descendant od the Carroll of Maryland, of whom Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, a singer of the Declaration of Independence, was the leader in a notable group.
Thrust in Early life into the confusion of the War Between the States, Fayette Dunlap retained memories of his youthful transfer to Bloomfield, Kentucky, by his parents where the warm Southern sympathies of his family would be subjected to less embarrassment than in their native city, of the return to residence here during the war in the home of an uncle, Daniel W. Jones, in the house now owned by Gentry Caldwell on the Harrodsburg Road, where the with childish awe and excitement, witnessed the secret arrival of his wounded half-brother Major Watkins Dunlap, of the Southern Armies, from the field of Perryville. Watkins Dunlap survived to ride with Morgan’s Men, receive yet other wounds, refuse Reconstruction, and become a Colonel in the Egyptian Army, with a fortress on Nile Dedicated to his memory.
After the war the boy’s childhood home was a house of Colonial construction on the site now occupied by the Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church. In this house James G. Birney, twice a candidate for President on an anti-slavery ticket, had been born in 1792. Here were gathered the memories of Fayette Dunlap’s own and brothers’ and sisters’ childhood.
From it he went to Centre College to be graduated in the class of 1874, of which it is believed he was the last surviving member. There followed his medical training at Tulane University, New Orleans, where as a young quarantine officer of the port he endured the ordeal of an attack of yellow fever, during the great epidemic there.
In the completion of his medical training, Fayette Dunlap studied at the University of Pennsylvania, at Harvard, at Heidelberg in Germany and at the University of Vienna. It was his son's pleasure, shortly after the World War, to be the guest of the them Rector of Heidelberg University, Herr Hoops a college mate of his father’s, who recalled with a wistful pleasure and philosophical detachment the charm of student days so long before national arrogance had made him a technical enemy of his fellow student from Kentucky.
After his return to Danville to practice medicine with his father, the life and career of Dr. Fayette Dunlap became interwoven in the fabric of this community's history. By industrious application and frugal life he advanced his career though it was ever subordinated to the call at any hour of any poor and needy person in distress. By the unselfish expenditure of his genial, kind and witty personality he advanced his spiritual fortunes which have never ceased to grow and are limited only by the mercy of God and the memory of man.
Dr. Dunlap established an acquaintanceship by correspondence with Woodrow Wilson when both were young and maintained this connection as it ripened into friendship through the years. It was not however until the summer of Wilson’s first campaign that they met in person. Dr. Dunlap was ever a warm admirer of the future War President’s profound scholarship and high personal and political ideals.
Conscientious always in his civic duties he served many useful years as a member of the city council and was acting Mayor of Danville on a number of occasions. Given the recognition in his profession that he never sought but earned and accepted as in his line of duty, he became the year-after-year president of the Boyle County Medical Society, the President Central Kentucky Medical Association, the frequent delegate to medical meetings, both state and national, and the valued contributor to medical journals.
Among the most cherished interests of his life was that of promoting the fame of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, "The Father of Ovariotomy." He never wearied of extolling the service of this great surgeon, and fellow townsman his work to humanity and marveled to the end by sheer genius this courageous doctor on the frontier of civilization in an operation that had baffled the best surgeons of Europe and in his success established a technique in that particular form of surgery that has saved countless lives and is followed today by specialists in New York and London and by missionary doctors on the banks of the Yangtze and the Congo.
Due in no small measure to Dr. Dunlap’s enthusiasm and perseverance proper honors in memorial stone and in public recognition have been given Dr. McDowell in Danville and throughout the medial world. His honorary membership in the McDowell Medical Society of Cincinnati was even a source of pleasure and pride to him. As recently as last February Dr. Dunlap presided over a company if distinguished surgeons from all parts of the country, gathered here to commemorate the unveiling at the same time of a bust of Dr. McDowell in Washington.
Throughout his entire career but more particularly in his later life, Dr. Dunlap devoted much time and study to the early history of Danville and the State. By his indefatigable research and ordered collection of his materials he became the best informed historian of this period in Kentucky.
So complete was his knowledge of the personalities and exploits of the pioneers that won Kentucky and the Ohio Valley for the nation that he became the oracle for all who sought information on any phase of our region’s history in the early days and was ever ready to contribute his time and knowledge on occasions of historical celebration. On many phases that were models of felicitous English and valuable sources of historical information.
Dr. Dunlap was twice married. His first wife was Martha Williams, of Bloomington, Illinois, whom he married in 1895 and to whom his son Richard W Dunlap, was born. Her untimely death in 1903 was a great sorrow to her host of friends in the community by which she was affectionately remembered.
In 1906 Dr. Dunlap and Miss Lin Lithgow, of Louisville, were married. For almost a quarter of a century their home here has been a center of hospitality in the social life of Danville.
For more than a year Dr. Dunlap’s friends had remarked that he was failing somewhat in physical vigor though his fine qualities of mind and his genial and optimistic spirit were never impaired. About two months ago the severe attacks of an abdominal disorder which were to cause his death began. Under the care of Dr Rice Cowan, his friend and professional associate of many years, he received the most solicitous attentions here, in Lexington and at the Norton Infirmary in Louisville where he spent a week in June for medical treatment. The last month of his life was spent at his home on the corner of Third and Lexington streets where he lived since the beginning of the century.
The entire community joins with the members of his family in mourning in the death of Dr. Fayette Dunlap an irreparable loss.
The Advocate-Messenger (Danville, Kentucky)29 Jul 1929, Mon • Page 2
DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN DIES
In the death of Dr. Fayette Dunlap Danville loses one of its most distinguished, and useful citizens. He was one of the most prominent physicians and surgeons in Central Kentucky and had lived a life of valuable service to the people of this section of the state. He came from a distinguished line of ancestry and lived up to the traditions and teachings of the honorable pioneers of the early history of Kentucky.
Dr. Dunlap was highly educated, having graduated from Centre College, Tulane University and completed his training In Germany and Vienna..., He was probably the best posted man in the community upon the question of local history and had contributed many historic articles to magazines and newspapers, as well as being a contributor to many medical Journals.
In other columns of today's Messenger a sketch of the life of Dr. Dunlap is given. No citizen of Danville has ever done more for this community than this good man, who at all times was ready, to help every worthy cause. He was kind and gentle, yet strong and vigorous in his opposition to those things that were not for the best of the community, and was not afraid to use his influence for those things he believed to be right. Danville can ill afford to lose men like Dr. Dunlap, but be had lived along and useful life and is sure to be rewarded for his many acts of kindness and for the great good h had done for his community.
FLAG AT HALF MAST TODAY FOR DR. DUNLAP
As a mark of appreciation for his long and invaluable service to the community which he served for many years as a member of the Board of Council and on several occasions as acting Mayor, the flag of the City Hall by order of Mayor W.O. .McIntyre will be flown at half-mast today, the day of DR. Fayette Dunlap’s funeral. No man in the city was more highly regarded and there was no one who has ever devoted himself so faithfully to the study of the history of Danville, his birthplace, which he knew in greater detail than anyone living.
The Advocate-Messenger (Danville, Kentucky)29 Jul 1929, Mon • Page 1
Dr. Fayette Dunlap
Dr. Fayette Dunlap, one of the most highly esteemed and beloved citizens of the community, died peacefully at his home at 8:20 o'clock Saturday night. His wife, Mrs. Lin Lithgow Dunlap, his son, Richard William Dunlap, two brothers and a sister, Richard P. and Lee Dunlap and Mrs. Dudley M. Bowman, of Kansas City and Harry Hocker, his cousin and member of his household for many years, were at his bedside. A third brother, James B. Dunlap, of Los Angeles, Calif also survives.
Funeral services will be held this (Monday) afternoon at four o'clock at the Christian church, of which he was a life-long member and in which he had been an officer for many years. Dr. Madison A. Hart, pastor of the church, assisted by Dr. Roy Kleiser, pastor or the Centenary Methodist Episcopal church, will conduct the services. Burial will be in Bellevue cemetery. The following will act as pallbearers: Nelson Rodes, W. Logan Wood, June Hocker, of Hustonville, E. P. Faulconer, Jr James Knox, Banks Hudson, J. A. Robinson and E. W. Cook.
As Dr. Dunlap counted among his devoted and loyal friends those of all ages, condition and color, in Danville and in the surrounding towns and countrywide, to whom he had devoted a life-time of service, his family will feel themselves privileged to welcome all his friends who may wish to pay their respects to his memory at the services at the church and in the cemetery.
Gifted by inheritance and by bountiful Providence with rare qualities of heart and mind that few are privileged to own, Fayette Dunlap devoted his gifts happily and unstintedly to the serve of his fellowmen.
His deeply planted love of his native soil and of his own Kentucky people led him back to them for his life’s mission after a most thorough training in his profession and a natural and unusually felicitous gift in literary expression had equipped him for high conquest anywhere in ether of the two fields.
Those who knew him best-and these are drawn from the ranks of both the high and the lowly-realize that above the knowledge of high intellectual attainments, beyond the skill he had in his professional capacity, suppressing his pride in rugged pioneer ancestry, was a deep humanitarian, an honest, unaffected love of man, woman, and child, his fellow beings.
Happy and genial by nature, ever kind, courteous and thoughtful to all, Dr Dunlap readily gained and held the affection and respect of everyone with whom he came in contact in this community, throughout the State and elsewhere. It is safe to say mat nu citizen of Danville within memory has been so universally loved.
There is no one who knew him who will not freely bear witness to his nobility of soul, his integrity of purpose, his gentleness of spirit, his high Christian character and his truly remarkable mental gifts and attainments.
His qualities inspired the same devoted respect if he mingled with his fellow historians of the Filson Club in Louisville or if he as the country doctor drove his horse through the swollen waters of the Hanging Fork on a wintry night to reach a Negro cabin where his heart and his skill could be of service to his human kind without thought of gain.
An evidence of the kindly helpfulness of his nature was the interest he took in young physicians and in young people in general. There are many doctors today scattered over the country who in their success owe much to him for aid and sage advice he so freely gave them in their younger days and there are many people young today others young in other days who affectionately remember his many kindnesses.
There are innumerable men and women who will feel a personal loss his passing that can never be repaired. The community in which lived and labored- and it is inclusive of all that beloved Kentucky soil which his forefathers and those of his friends struggled for and fought, to attain-is immeasurably poorer now tht he is gone.
But with the modesty and consideration that was characteristic him always he would wish that ever personal friends and the community as a whole remember him in the full possession of these happy and unselfish traits which continued to the day of his death, and think not of their own sorrow but of the peace that is given by God to His faithful servants.
Fayette Dunlap was born on March 3, 1855, in the house now occupied by the family of William Anderson on the Southwest corner of Third and Lexington streets. His father was Dr. Richard William Dunlap, who was born in 1817, received his education at the Transylvania University and had become a distinguisged practitioner of his profession and a man of force in the community at an early age. He had already assisted in the establishment of the Christian Church in Danville and was to become one of the founders and president of the Kentucky Medical Association.
Fayette Dunlap’s mother was Sarah Jackson Bailey, of Lincoln County, whose ancestor, Captain John Bailey was one of Kentucky’s earliest pioneers and was an officer under George Rogers Clark in the immortal expedition that won the Ohio River Country for the young Republic. Sarah Bailey was alos a descendant od the Carroll of Maryland, of whom Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, a singer of the Declaration of Independence, was the leader in a notable group.
Thrust in Early life into the confusion of the War Between the States, Fayette Dunlap retained memories of his youthful transfer to Bloomfield, Kentucky, by his parents where the warm Southern sympathies of his family would be subjected to less embarrassment than in their native city, of the return to residence here during the war in the home of an uncle, Daniel W. Jones, in the house now owned by Gentry Caldwell on the Harrodsburg Road, where the with childish awe and excitement, witnessed the secret arrival of his wounded half-brother Major Watkins Dunlap, of the Southern Armies, from the field of Perryville. Watkins Dunlap survived to ride with Morgan’s Men, receive yet other wounds, refuse Reconstruction, and become a Colonel in the Egyptian Army, with a fortress on Nile Dedicated to his memory.
After the war the boy’s childhood home was a house of Colonial construction on the site now occupied by the Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church. In this house James G. Birney, twice a candidate for President on an anti-slavery ticket, had been born in 1792. Here were gathered the memories of Fayette Dunlap’s own and brothers’ and sisters’ childhood.
From it he went to Centre College to be graduated in the class of 1874, of which it is believed he was the last surviving member. There followed his medical training at Tulane University, New Orleans, where as a young quarantine officer of the port he endured the ordeal of an attack of yellow fever, during the great epidemic there.
In the completion of his medical training, Fayette Dunlap studied at the University of Pennsylvania, at Harvard, at Heidelberg in Germany and at the University of Vienna. It was his son's pleasure, shortly after the World War, to be the guest of the them Rector of Heidelberg University, Herr Hoops a college mate of his father’s, who recalled with a wistful pleasure and philosophical detachment the charm of student days so long before national arrogance had made him a technical enemy of his fellow student from Kentucky.
After his return to Danville to practice medicine with his father, the life and career of Dr. Fayette Dunlap became interwoven in the fabric of this community's history. By industrious application and frugal life he advanced his career though it was ever subordinated to the call at any hour of any poor and needy person in distress. By the unselfish expenditure of his genial, kind and witty personality he advanced his spiritual fortunes which have never ceased to grow and are limited only by the mercy of God and the memory of man.
Dr. Dunlap established an acquaintanceship by correspondence with Woodrow Wilson when both were young and maintained this connection as it ripened into friendship through the years. It was not however until the summer of Wilson’s first campaign that they met in person. Dr. Dunlap was ever a warm admirer of the future War President’s profound scholarship and high personal and political ideals.
Conscientious always in his civic duties he served many useful years as a member of the city council and was acting Mayor of Danville on a number of occasions. Given the recognition in his profession that he never sought but earned and accepted as in his line of duty, he became the year-after-year president of the Boyle County Medical Society, the President Central Kentucky Medical Association, the frequent delegate to medical meetings, both state and national, and the valued contributor to medical journals.
Among the most cherished interests of his life was that of promoting the fame of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, "The Father of Ovariotomy." He never wearied of extolling the service of this great surgeon, and fellow townsman his work to humanity and marveled to the end by sheer genius this courageous doctor on the frontier of civilization in an operation that had baffled the best surgeons of Europe and in his success established a technique in that particular form of surgery that has saved countless lives and is followed today by specialists in New York and London and by missionary doctors on the banks of the Yangtze and the Congo.
Due in no small measure to Dr. Dunlap’s enthusiasm and perseverance proper honors in memorial stone and in public recognition have been given Dr. McDowell in Danville and throughout the medial world. His honorary membership in the McDowell Medical Society of Cincinnati was even a source of pleasure and pride to him. As recently as last February Dr. Dunlap presided over a company if distinguished surgeons from all parts of the country, gathered here to commemorate the unveiling at the same time of a bust of Dr. McDowell in Washington.
Throughout his entire career but more particularly in his later life, Dr. Dunlap devoted much time and study to the early history of Danville and the State. By his indefatigable research and ordered collection of his materials he became the best informed historian of this period in Kentucky.
So complete was his knowledge of the personalities and exploits of the pioneers that won Kentucky and the Ohio Valley for the nation that he became the oracle for all who sought information on any phase of our region’s history in the early days and was ever ready to contribute his time and knowledge on occasions of historical celebration. On many phases that were models of felicitous English and valuable sources of historical information.
Dr. Dunlap was twice married. His first wife was Martha Williams, of Bloomington, Illinois, whom he married in 1895 and to whom his son Richard W Dunlap, was born. Her untimely death in 1903 was a great sorrow to her host of friends in the community by which she was affectionately remembered.
In 1906 Dr. Dunlap and Miss Lin Lithgow, of Louisville, were married. For almost a quarter of a century their home here has been a center of hospitality in the social life of Danville.
For more than a year Dr. Dunlap’s friends had remarked that he was failing somewhat in physical vigor though his fine qualities of mind and his genial and optimistic spirit were never impaired. About two months ago the severe attacks of an abdominal disorder which were to cause his death began. Under the care of Dr Rice Cowan, his friend and professional associate of many years, he received the most solicitous attentions here, in Lexington and at the Norton Infirmary in Louisville where he spent a week in June for medical treatment. The last month of his life was spent at his home on the corner of Third and Lexington streets where he lived since the beginning of the century.
The entire community joins with the members of his family in mourning in the death of Dr. Fayette Dunlap an irreparable loss.
The Advocate-Messenger (Danville, Kentucky)29 Jul 1929, Mon • Page 2
DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN DIES
In the death of Dr. Fayette Dunlap Danville loses one of its most distinguished, and useful citizens. He was one of the most prominent physicians and surgeons in Central Kentucky and had lived a life of valuable service to the people of this section of the state. He came from a distinguished line of ancestry and lived up to the traditions and teachings of the honorable pioneers of the early history of Kentucky.
Dr. Dunlap was highly educated, having graduated from Centre College, Tulane University and completed his training In Germany and Vienna..., He was probably the best posted man in the community upon the question of local history and had contributed many historic articles to magazines and newspapers, as well as being a contributor to many medical Journals.
In other columns of today's Messenger a sketch of the life of Dr. Dunlap is given. No citizen of Danville has ever done more for this community than this good man, who at all times was ready, to help every worthy cause. He was kind and gentle, yet strong and vigorous in his opposition to those things that were not for the best of the community, and was not afraid to use his influence for those things he believed to be right. Danville can ill afford to lose men like Dr. Dunlap, but be had lived along and useful life and is sure to be rewarded for his many acts of kindness and for the great good h had done for his community.
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