Marriage and Family
On November 23, 1892, Dunn married Charlotte Elliott Jones. The couple met when they had acting parts in an amateur theatrical at the Indianapolis Propylaeum Club. The Dunns had two daughters; their only son drowned in 1904, while the family was on vacation in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Read more about this topic: Jacob Piatt Dunn
Famous quotes containing the words marriage and/or family:
“With my desire to write he seemed in full sympathy, and in urging our early marriage he argued that my first necessity was leisure in which to develop and to master my craft. It appeared to me that with such a man as teacher and guide I could not fail, and it was in a queer mixture of young love and vaulting ambition that I became a wife.”
—Rheta Childe Dorr (1866–1948)
“If a family lives in harmony, all its affairs will prosper.”
—Chinese proverb.