Benjamin Franklin Dunning

Dunning, known as "Frank" to family and friends, was born on June 7, 1856, in Lisbon, Maine,^[1] to Jesse Appleton Dunning and Dorcas Anne Greene.^[2]

On August 14, 1880, in Gorham, New Hampshire, he married Adrianne Staples "Addie" Reed, with whom he had seven children, including Thurlow Reed Dunning (born 1897), who was a colonel in the United States Army.^[3]

He was the head mason during the construction of Casco Castle, in South Freeport, Maine. It was completed in 1903, but burned down in 1914. Only its stone tower remains.^[3][4][5]

After living in Freeport, Maine, the family moved to Winchester, Massachusetts, in 1907. Some of the family later returned to Freeport.^[3]

Dunning died on June 4, 1940, in Danvers, Massachusetts. He was 83. He is buried in Freeport's Woodlawn Cemetery, alongside his wife, who died three years earlier.^[1]

• Casco Castle, South Freeport, Maine (1903)