His immediate ancestors on the paternal side were of German descent, and hailed from Lancaster County, Penn., while on the maternal side they were of Anglican birth. Grandfather Boggs was a soldier of the American army in the Revolutionary war.

The subject of this personal narrative although approaching the shadows of threescore years, has resided in but two localities.

Fannettsburg, Penn., where he was born on the 5^th day of April, 1826, and Delphi, Ind., whither he came in 1837, at the youthful age of eleven years, in the company and protection of William Dunkle, an elder brother.

Before arriving at the age of citizenship, he had mastered in the office of R. C. Green, the compositor’s craft and from 1844 to 1848 engaged in the publication of the Carroll Express, a weekly newspaper devoted to the interests of the Whig party. In 1851 and 1852, he worked as compositor in the office of Applegate & Graham, who had began the publication of the still extant Delphi Times.

Subsequently and as a proof of his reliability, Mr. Dunkle was for sixteen successive years a faithful and efficient clerk in the hardware store of Dunkle & Kilgore – a term of service which might have been prolonged had not the citizens of "Old Carroll" interrupted it and attested their appreciation of the man and his character, by electing him in 1871, their County Treasurer, a position so creditably filled by him as to bring about in 1873, his re-election to the same office. A few years of rest, and his popularity as a county official takes form, in 1878, in his election to the office of Auditor of Carroll County, which position he holds to-day.

In 1847, he married Mary Dewey, the first white child born in Delphi, and daughter of Aaron Dewey, who taught the first school and built the first brick houses in Carroll County.

Five children have been born to them, three of whom – Emma C., Charles H, and Lizzie D. are yet living. Mrs. Dunkle has always been recognized as a thoroughly consistent Christian woman, full of sturdy domestic qualities, which endear her to her family and to the community in which she lives.

Mr. Dunkle has been a member of the Delphi Lodge of I. O. O. F. since the age of twenty-one years, filling all the offices of this order, and being a member of the Grand Lodge. In politics, he is an ardent Republican, yet his private and official life has been characterized by such integrity of purpose and affability of manner that whenever a candidate, he receives a generous support from citizens of all political denominations, without regard to party affiliations.

County Coordinator: Suzy Sprague suzyq.wa@worldnet.att.net