Moncena Dunn (other)
Moncena Dunn may refer to: * Moncena Dunn (inventor), 1867–1944, inventor of the fraud-proof ballot * Moncena Dunn (soldier) ''for the inventor of the fraud proof coupon ballot, please see Moncena Dunn (inventor)'' Moncena Dunn (born Poland, Maine Sept 17, 1822, died West Roxbury, Massachusetts June 30, 1895, age 71), was a bookkeeper and wikt:cutler, cutler inducted i ...

Moncena Dunn (inventor)
Moncena Dunn (October 15, 1867 – July 16, 1944), was a farmer, telegrapher, optometrist, and inventor of the fraud-proof, color-coded coupon ballot (Dunn Ballot). Early years Moncena Dunn was born the son of farmer Wallace Dunn and Lucy N. Miller in Hancock, Wisconsin, Hancock, Wisconsin 15 October 1867. Dunn married Lois Woodward in 1891 and as the station agent went to live at Summit, South Dakota, a station established on the recently built extension of the Milwaukee Road. When the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, Sisseton and Wahpeton Reservation was opened for settlement Moncena and Lois took up a claim adjacent to the town of Summit, built a small wooden house and here their two children, Everett Dunn, Everett and Wendell E. Dunn, Wendell, were born. Moncena Dunn was appointed US Postmaster of Summit, 6 April 1892. Dunn Ballot The Dunn color-coded coupon ballot was authorized as part of an act passed by the Wisconsin legislature in 1905. In July 1914, Dunn went to Chicago, Ill ...
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