Stanley Armour Dunham ( - )
Stanley Dunham is a Military Veteran.
Served in the United States Army 18 Jan
Pvt, World War II
When Stanley Armour was born on March 23, , in Wichita, Kansas, his father, Ralph, was 23 and his mother, Ruth, was He lost his mother when he was only 8 years old. He and his wife, Madelyn Payne Dunham, raised their grandson Barack Obama from the age of 10 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
His father's ancestors settled in Kempton, Indiana, in the s, before relocating to Kansas. His parents were married on October 3, , at a home on South Saint Francis St. in Wichita, and opened The Travelers' Cafe on William Street situated between the old firehouse and the old Wichita City Hotel.
On November 25, , at age 8, Dunham discovered his mother's body after she had committed suicide. Subsequently, Dunham's father placed him and his older brother Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham, Jr. in the care of their maternal grandparents in El Dorado, Kansas. A rebellious teenager, Dunham allegedly punched his high school principal and spent some time drifting, hopping rail cars to Chicago, California, and back again. He married Madelyn Lee Payne on May 5, , the night of her s
Ralph Emerson Dunham —
Born on Aug 29, to Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham and Ruth Lucille Armour Dunham. Ralph Emerson Dunham passed away on Dec 18, , at the age of 96 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, VA. Ralph Emerson Dunham was married to Elizabeth "betty" Smith Dunham.
- Birth:
- Aug 29,
- Death:
- Dec 18, (aged 96)
- Born in:
- Wichita, KS
- Plot:
- Columbarium 7 Section K Stack 1 Niche 1
- Burial place:
- Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington, VA
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Ralph Dunham was born on August 29,
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Ralph Dunham was born in Wichita, KS
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Ralph Dunham passed away in December 18,
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Ralph Dunham is interred in Arlington, VA , in Plot: Columbarium 7 Section K Stack 1 Niche 1
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Tracing Obama's Irish links
President Barack Hussein Obama is the newest member of an exclusive club of 20 U.S. presidents who claim Irish ancestry.
Obama's Irish great-great-great-grandparent, Falmouth Kearney, who left Moneygall in Co. Offaly in , puts him at 13th position in an informal ranking, alongside James Polk and just ahead of Richard Nixon.
Obama is descended from Ohio and Indiana immigrants who came from the borders of Counties Offaly and Tipperary.
Obama is also a member of an even more select group of just four presidents whose fathers were born outside the U.S. And while Obama's father was born in Kenya, the other three presidential fathers were all born in Ireland; the parents of Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan, and the father of Chester Arthur.
Obama has a relatively close link to Falmouth Kearney because his great-grandfather Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham (Falmouth's grandson) was still alive for part of Obama's childhood. Ralph died in at the age of 76 when Obama was nine.
Ralph's mother, Mary Anne Kearney Dunham, was Falmouth Kearney's youngest daughter, and she was born in She was nine when Falmouth died in , almost three years after he had arrived
Ralph Waldo Emerson Family Tree and Descendants
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the midth century.
He is best known for his essay "Nature," which outlines his philosophy of individualism and self-reliance.
Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a prominent family. He graduated from Harvard College in and then studied divinity at Harvard Divinity School. However, he left the school before graduating because he disagreed with its religious teachings.
In , Emerson began a career as a Unitarian minister. However, he resigned from the ministry in because he felt that it was not a good fit for him. He then began to lecture and write about his philosophy of transcendentalism.
Transcendentalism is a philosophy that emphasizes the importance of individual intuition and experience. It rejects the idea that truth can be found in external authorities, such as books or churches. Instead, transcendentalists believe that truth can be found within each individual.
Emerson's essays and lectures were very influential in the 19th century.
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