Later Years
While in his sixties, Dunn traveled to Hispaniola for two months in 1921, visiting Haiti and Santo Domingo to evaluate the area's mineral resources and hoping to identify profitable manganese mines for a group of American investors. He was not successful in finding sufficient deposits of manganese or gold. Returning to the United States in early 1922, Dunn wrote about his Haitian adventures as well as his studies of the island’s dialects and voodoo cult.
In 1922 Samuel M. Ralston, the newly elected U.S. Senator from Indiana, chose Dunn as his private secretary for his office in Washington, D.C. While serving as Ralston's chief aide, Dunn became ill from a tropical disease he contracted on his trip to Haiti that made him prone to jaundice. Dunn had to return home to Indianapolis. He died on June 6, 1924. Dunn is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis.
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