The Biographical Dictionary of America/Dun, Walter Angus

DUN, Walter Angus, physician, was born at Plumwood, Madison county, Ohio, March 1, 1857. He was graduated from the Ohio state university, B.S. in 1878, and from the Miami medical college of Cincinnati, M.D., in 1882, receiving the faculty prize of $100 for excellence in final examinations. He then entered University college and hospital, London, and in the fall of 1882 was made licentiate by the Royal college of physicians. He was made a member of the Royal college of surgeons, Nov. 15, 1882, and a fellow of the Royal microscopical society in the same year. After travelling on the continent he returned to Cincinnati in 1883, and was appointed demonstrator of histology and practical physiology at the Miami medical college. He also became lecturer on clinical medicine in children's diseases; physician to the Episcopal hospital for children in the diocese of Southern Ohio; assistant physician to the children's home; curator of the Cincinnati hospital, and a member of numerous medical and social societies. He was also a trustee of Miami university, Oxford, Ohio, in 1884–85, and a lecturer on physiology and comparative anatomy in Cincinnati university. He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 7, 1887.