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The New World Journal of Alexander Graham Dunlop, 1845
Alexander Graham Dunlop, 1814-1892, was the son of John Dunlop, the Temperance reformer, of Gairbraid, Dumbartonshire, Scotland. His uncle William Dunlop, known as "The Tiger" to the literary world, worked with John Galt developing the Canada Company's land in southwestern Ontario. When he visited North America in 1845, Alexander Dunlop made his way from the West Indies to New Orleans, and from there up the Mississippi, and the Illinois, to Chicago, thence across the Great Lakes, calling at Milwaukee, Mackinaw, and Detroit, before crossing into Canada in search of his "good old Tiger Uncle" at Goderich. Dunlop's tour in the Canadas included visits to Toronto, Kingston, Montreal, Quebec, Quee...
D.N. Dunlop, A Man of Our Time
D.N. Dunlop (1868-1935) combined remarkable practical and organizational abilities in industry and commerce with gifted spiritual and esoteric capacities. A personal friend of W.B. Yeats and Rudolf Steiner, Dunlop was responsible for founding the World Power Conference (today the World Energy Council), and played leading roles in the Theosophical Society and later the Anthroposophical Society. In his business life he pioneered a cooperative approach towards the emerging global economy. Meyer’s compelling narrative of Dunlop’s life begins on the Isle of Arran, where the motherless boy is brought up by his grandfather. In a landscape rich with prehistoric standing stones, the young Dunlop ...
Dunlop of that Ilk
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Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation
In 1866, Alexander Dunlop, a free black living in Williamsburg Virginia, did three unusual things. He had an audience with the President of the United States, testified in front of the Joint Congressional Committee on Reconstruction, and he purchased a tombstone for his wife, Lucy Ann Dunlop. Purchases of this sort were rarities among Virginia’s free black community—and this particular gravestone is made more significant by Dunlop’s choice of words, his political advocacy, and the racialized rhetoric of the period. Carved by a pair of Richmond-based carvers, who like many other Southern monument makers, contributed to celebrating and mythologizing the “Lost Cause” in the wake of th...
1585-1592
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