Thomas Dunsmore was born in 1835 in Canada.
The 1870 United States census showed Thomas Densmore (age 40, railroad laborer, born in Indiana) living in Spring Valley, Fillmore County, Minnesota.
Thomas Dunsmore married Louise Waldorf on January 20, 1874 (or 1875), in Fillmore County, Minnesota.
Dunsmore, T. Fillmore County, Carrolton Township, Lanesboro, Brick Maker, Nativity: Canada East, Came to Minnesota: 1864. (A Comprehensive Index to A. T. Andreas’ Illustrated Historical Atlas of Minnesota, 1874, Page 85)
The 1875 Minnesota census showed Thomas Densmore (age 41, born in Canada) living in Carrolton, Fillmore County, Minnesota.
The 1880 United States census showed Thomas Dunsmore (age 45, born in Canada, country store) married to Louisa C. (age 37, born in New York) and living in Moose Lake, Minnesota. Children Albert E. (age 17, born in Canada), Lizzie M. (age 16, born in Iowa), Mary B. (age 14, born in Iowa) also lived with the couple.
The 1885 Minnesota census showed Thomas Dunsmore (age 50, born in Canada) married to Louisa (age 43, born in New York) and living in Moose Lake, Minnesota. Children Albert (age 22, born in Canada) and Mary (age 18, born in Iowa) also lived with the couple.
The 1891-92 Duluth City Directory showed Thomas J. Dunsmore (126 Piedment avenue E.) as a clerk for Minn. P. & P. Co., in Duluth, Minnesota.
The 1895 Minnesota census showed Thomas Dunsmore (age 58, born in Canada, Merchants Hotel) married to Louisa C. (age 48, born in New York) and living in Virginia, Minnesota. Children A. E. (age 31, born in Canada), Metta (age 31, born in Norway), and E. L. (age 1 ½, born in Minnesota) also lived with the couple.
The 1900 United States census showed Louise Dunsmore (age 58, born in September 1841 in New York) living with a daughter Libbie (age 37, born in June 1862 in Wisconsin) and her husband Richard Eva, in Duluth, Minnesota.