Mellie Dunham

Dunham was born on July 29, 1853, in Norway, Maine,^[1] to Alanson Mellen Dunham and Christiana Bent. He came to prominence after he was invited to play for Henry Ford at his house in Dearborn, Michigan. Ford sent a Pullman car for Dunham and his wife, Emma "Gram" Dunham (née Richardson), because of Ford's love of country music.^[2] While Ford had invited 38 other fiddlers before Dunham, none received as much attention as Dunham did.^[1]

He was also a snowshoe maker, supplying 60 pairs of snowshoes to Commodore Robert Peary for an Arctic expedition.^[3]

Dunham died on September 27, 1931, aged 78, in Lewiston, Maine, after a two-week illness,^[4] and was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, South Paris, Maine.

• "Mellie Dunham and His Orch - Mountain Rangers 1926" (MP3 and streaming audio). 1926. Retrieved 2008-11-30.

• "Mellie Dunham: Fiddling to Fame". The Maine Experience. Maine Public Broadcasting Network.

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