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Biographies of the Dunham Genealogy Research Association Board of Directors

John Dunham Duguid

My Grandfather, Lewis G. Dunham, a descendant of Deacon John Dunham, was born in Braintree, Vermont in 1871. He became employed as a trainman with The Central Vermont Railway. My Mother, Dorothy (Dunham) Duguid was born in White River Junction, VT in 1909. Around 1914 Lewis moved his wife Abbie and two daughters to Canada and began working for the Canadian National Railway as a brakeman and later as a conductor.

In 1929 Dorothy married Arthur A. Duguid, a Canadian of Scottish heritage in what is now Thunder Bay, Ontario on Lake Superior. Twins, Grace and Glenn were born there in 1930. I was born in 1938, and Charlotte in 1944. In 1948 the family moved to Toronto.

After high school and technical training I was employed as a radio operator for the Canadian Department of Transport. In the 1960s I relocated to England and worked as sea-going radio officer in the British Merchant Navy. In 1969 I returned to Canada and was employed in various technical jobs.

In 1982 I went back to school for training in computer programming and accounting. In 1993 I moved to Central Texas and held administrative positions with the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and with the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2005 I retired to San Marcos, TX, and in 2017 I returned to Canada, living in Amherstburg, Ontario, near Detroit. For the past few years I have served as coordinator for our group's DNA Project.