Moncena Dunn

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 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 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 and Wendell, were born. Moncena Dunn was appointed US Postmaster of Summit, 6 April 1892.