Ransom W. Dunham


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Ransom W. Dunham

Ransom W. Dunham was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade and served as its president in 1882.^[1]

He also served as a U.S. Representative in Congress from Illinois from 1883 to 1889.^[2]

Background[edit]

Dunham was born on March 21, 1838 in Savoy, MA. He moved to Chicago in 1857 and became a provision and grain commission merchant.

He died in 1896 and interred in the Mount Hope Cemetery in Chicago.^[3]

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