May 31, 1825, New­port, Rhode Is­land.

Au­gust 28, 1867, New­port, Rhode Is­land.

A Pres­by­ter­i­an, Dunn grad­u­at­ed from Brown Un­i­ver­si­ty, Pro­vi­dence, Rhode Is­land, in 1843. From 1844 to 1846, he taught French and worked as a lib­rar­i­an at the un­i­ver­si­ty. He then en­tered the The­o­lo­gic­al Sem­in­ary in Prince­ton, New Jer­sey; he was li­censed by the Pres­by­te­ry of New Bruns­wick in Ap­ril 1847, and or­dained by the Pres­by­te­ry of West-Jer­sey No­vem­ber 1, 1848, as pas­tor of the First Pres­by­ter­i­an Church of Cam­den, New Jer­sey. In Ap­ril 1851, he ac­cept­ed the chair of Rhe­tor­ic and Eng­lish Lit­er­a­ture at Brown Un­i­ver­si­ty. The un­i­ver­si­ty gave him a DD de­gree in 1864. His hymns were main­ly trans­la­tions from La­tin and other sourc­es.

• Julian, pp. 316, 1630

1. Jesus, Je­sus, Visit Me
2. Jesus, Our Fainting Spir­its Cry
3. We Sin­ners, Lord, with Ear­nest Heart
4. No, No, It Is Not Dy­ing