William Riley Dunham

The 5,000 sq ft (460 m²) farm house that Dunham built in Tipton County, Indiana in the 1880s, The Dunham House, still stands today. The original 120 acres (0.49 km²) of land upon which the house was built was purchased by his grandfather, Jacob Dunham, as a land grant in 1849 and remained in the Dunham family until 1969.^[5][6] As local legend recalls, William Riley was an acquaintance of President Grover Cleveland, who may have spent the night in the home. He even named one of his sons Grover Cleveland Dunham, eventually a physician, who would later inherent the property from his father.^[7] The Dunham file that the Heritage Society maintains mysteriously contains an obscure newspaper article giving details of a secret medical procedure that President Cleveland underwent while in office.^[3] The Dunham family, and the Goodnight, Kearney, and Stroup families that they married into, served the public in the region in politics, medicine, education, and agriculture.^[8]

Then candidate Barack Obama, a descendant of Dunham's brother, visited the house with his wife and daughters in May 2008.^[9] A historical marker now graces the property.^[10]

• William Riley Dunham at Find a Grave

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