(22 Jan. 1848-15 Oct. 1897), businessman, miner. (J.C. Dunlop) Born at Lancaster, GC. He went to Colorado at around age 18, and worked there as a millman. In 1871, he settled in Gold Hill, Nev., then in 1882 he moved to nearby Virgina City, Nev. He was attracted to this part of Nevada originally by the fame of the Comstock gold and silver finds. At first a miner, he flourished afterwards as a bakery and restaurant proprietor. He was elected county clerk and treasurer for Storey County, Nev., in 1886 as a Republican, and served till 1888. He was elected a senator, again as a Republican, in the Nevada state senate in 1888, and served till 1890. Having returned to mining interests, he occupied himself with them with little success in his last years. One of his obituaries remarked that “the good fortune that attended him in all his other ventures seemed to desert him in this.” He spent time in San Francisco in his final illness seeking medical assistance, but he died in Virginia City. He was married in 1876 to Mary E. Collins, of Gold Hill. She died at the age of 39 on 15 Feb. 1896. and he died at age 49 the following year. Their oldest daughter, Mary (May), who was then 19, had to take charge of her orphaned younger sisters, one of whom was only three. In 1900 Mary was a public school teacher in Virginia City, and in 1935 the three sisters were living in Reno. John C. Dunlop belonged to the local Caledonian Club and in 1881 he won its medal for “putting both the light and heavy stone.” (Territorial Enterprise, Virginia City, Nev., 9 April 1881) He was naturalized as an American citizen in 1876.

Evening Chronicle (Virginia City) 15 Oct. 1897, Daily Territorial Enterprise (Virgina City) 16 Oct. 1897; the latter is repr. Ross, Lancaster, 232-233 * biog. notices in Nevada: a Narrative of the Conquest of a Frontier Land, ed. James G. Scrugham , II, 427-428, III, 118 (both vols.1935) * documentation from Nevada State Library and archives including naturalization records, marriage license application, census records, business directories, Virginia City business map,state Senate records, and legal documents relating to guardianship of the Dunlop children * marriage, Territorial Enterprise, 8 Oct. 1876 * obituaries of Mrs Dunlop and report on funeral, Evening Chronicle (Virginia City), 15 Feb. 1896, Daily Territorial Enterprise 16 & 18 Feb. 1896 * The Journals of Alfred Doten, ed. Walter Van Tilburg Clark, vol. III (1973) 2067, 2112, for Mary (May) Dunlop