Individual Details
Brian Ború Dunne
(1878 - 1962)
Dunne made his later career as a journalist and settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico by 1909, where he served initially as private secretary to Archbishop G. B. Pitaval in 1909-12, after having served in a similar capacity under Cardinal Gibbons in Baltimore earlier in the century.
His father, Edmund Dunne (1835-1904), was a prominent attorney and Catholic layman, honored as a knight of the Order of St. Gregory by Pope Leo XIII in 1876 and as a Commander of the same order two years later. Judge Dunne, appointed Chief Justice of the Arizona Territory by President Grant in 1874, was instrumental in establishing the Catholic settlement of San Antonio in Florida in 1881. He remained associated with this settlement for eight years, and helped found St. Leo College there in 1889. For these achievements, Pope Leo XIII went on to create him a papal count, an hereditary title which his elder son Eugene Dunne (b. 1875) claimed under the style "Eugene Viscount O'Dunne." (The popes have granted few if any hereditable honors since the Lateran Treaty was signed in 1929.) At the end of his life (1901-03), Judge Dunne became involved in the promotion of another Catholic emigrant colony, "Hochheim," near Castleberry, Alabama.
After attending St. Mary College in Belmont, North Carolina in 1889-93, Brian Dunne was sent to Europe by his father in 1895 to perfect his knowledge of European languages. Brian was called home from Italy in late 1898, and made his living as a journalist in Baltimore, Maryland, until joining his father in the colonization endeavor in Alabama.
Brian's elder brother Eugene (the viscount) remained in Baltimore, where he had a very successful legal career, ending in 1945 with his retirement from the Maryland Supreme Court.
But it is to the San Antonio (1881-89) period of young Brian Dunne's boyhood that we must turn for his probable connection with amateur journalism.
"Dunne's father Edmund owned a printing press in the colony of San Antonio, Florida, which he had founded. In 1888 Brian, at the age of ten, printed a newspaper entitled The Toy, featuring local news and some advertising.
His father, Edmund Dunne (1835-1904), was a prominent attorney and Catholic layman, honored as a knight of the Order of St. Gregory by Pope Leo XIII in 1876 and as a Commander of the same order two years later. Judge Dunne, appointed Chief Justice of the Arizona Territory by President Grant in 1874, was instrumental in establishing the Catholic settlement of San Antonio in Florida in 1881. He remained associated with this settlement for eight years, and helped found St. Leo College there in 1889. For these achievements, Pope Leo XIII went on to create him a papal count, an hereditary title which his elder son Eugene Dunne (b. 1875) claimed under the style "Eugene Viscount O'Dunne." (The popes have granted few if any hereditable honors since the Lateran Treaty was signed in 1929.) At the end of his life (1901-03), Judge Dunne became involved in the promotion of another Catholic emigrant colony, "Hochheim," near Castleberry, Alabama.
After attending St. Mary College in Belmont, North Carolina in 1889-93, Brian Dunne was sent to Europe by his father in 1895 to perfect his knowledge of European languages. Brian was called home from Italy in late 1898, and made his living as a journalist in Baltimore, Maryland, until joining his father in the colonization endeavor in Alabama.
Brian's elder brother Eugene (the viscount) remained in Baltimore, where he had a very successful legal career, ending in 1945 with his retirement from the Maryland Supreme Court.
But it is to the San Antonio (1881-89) period of young Brian Dunne's boyhood that we must turn for his probable connection with amateur journalism.
"Dunne's father Edmund owned a printing press in the colony of San Antonio, Florida, which he had founded. In 1888 Brian, at the age of ten, printed a newspaper entitled The Toy, featuring local news and some advertising.
Events
| Birth | 1878 | ||||
| Death | 1962 |
Families
| Child | Brian Ború Dunn II |
| Father | Edmund F. Dunne (1835 - 1904) |
| Mother | Josephine Warner |
| Sibling | Eugene Dunne (1875 - ) |