Dates

• Existence: September 23, 1890

Biography

Rebecca Welty Dunn, composer, was born in Guthrie, Oklahoma, September 23, 1890, daughter of Perry and May (Day) Meadows. The father died in Guthrie, Oklahoma in 1891, and the mother, who was born in Mendota, Illinois is still living. She is president of the American War Mothers of Topeka, former registrar of the Topeka Daughters of the American Revolution and a former chaplain of the Order of Eastern Star.

In 1912 Rebecca Welty Meadows received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Washburn College. She has been a student at Harvard University Summer School and at Kansas State Agricultural College also.

On September 21, 1915, she was married to Grover Lee Dunn at Topeka. He was born in Onaga, February 20, 1888 and is a banker with that Union State Bank of Arkansas City. There is one daughter, Patricia, born June 21, 1921.

Mrs. Dunn is the author of about 50 songs, including Hallelujah Rain and Uncle Sam. The former has been placed in the library of representative American works in the Scottish National Library at Glasgow, Scotland, Uncle Sam is to be published in the Kansas Patriotic Manual.

Mrs. Dunn is a Republican. She is vice president of the State Federation of Music Clubs and was president of the Arkansas City Music Club from 1928 until 1930. She is a member of the Kansas Authors Club, the Red Cross, the Order of Eastern Star, the Parent Teachers Association, the Delphian Society (honorary), the Arkansas City Country Club, and the Study America Club (vice president, 1928). She is a Presbyterian.

Mrs. Dunn's compositions have been rendered upon radio stations throughout Kansas, in Kansas City, and in Hollywood. They have been sung in concerts often also. Mrs. Dunn's hobby is the collection of autographs of famous people. Residence: Arkansas City.

Source: Baldwin, Sara Mullin & Robert Morton Baldwin. Illustriana Kansas. 1933, page 348 /genealogytrails.com/kan/cowley/bios1.html>.

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