John Ainsworth Dunn (November 2, 1831, in Westminster, Massachusetts – 1915) was an American furniture maker.
S. Lynde, and constructed a dam, moved his shop there, supplying it with machinery, putting himself and men to work.
Seven years later Mr. Putman sold out to Thorley Collester, Ruel G. Cowee and Benjamin H. Rugg, who continued the business under the firm-name of Cowee, Collester and Company for a short time.
In 1864 John A. Dunn was admitted to the firm, which then was called Eaton, Holmes and Company.
The manufacturing of the chairs was done at the plant in Gardner, Massachusetts, but offices and warehouses were established in Chicago, Boston, and St. Paul; in addition to business going through those channels, the John A. Dunn Company supplied other chair manufacturers in large quantities both at home and abroad.
Dunn was seen by the people of Gardner as a man of strong and marked personality who made the community conspicuous in the industrial and commercial world.