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Hunt, Ezra Mundy – Hunt, Samuel

Hunt, Ezra Mundy

physician, author, was born Jan. 4, 1830, in Middlesex county, N. J. He is a physician of Trenton, N. J.; and the author of Patients' and Physicians' Assistant; Physicians' Counsels; Alcohol as Food and Medicine; and Principles of Hygiene.

Hunt, Freeman

publisher, author, was born March 21, 1804, in Quincy, Mass.

He was a publisher of New York city who was the founder of Hunt's Merchants' Magazine. He was the author of Lives of American Merchants; Sketches of Female Character; and Letters About the Hudson River. He died March 2, 1858, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Hunt, Harriet Kezia

physician, lecturer, author, was born Nov. 9, 1805, in Boston, Mass. She was a physician of Boston who lectured upon woman-suffrage and sanitary reforms. She published Glances and Glimpses, or Fifty Years' Social and Twenty Years' Professional Life. She died Jan. 2, 1875, in Boston, Mass.

Hunt, Henry Jackson

soldier, author, was born Sept. 14, 1819, in Detroit, Mich. He was a brigadier-general in the federal army during the civil war, brevetted major-general at its close. He was the author of Instructions for Field Artillery. He died Feb. 11, 1889, in Washington, D. C.

Hunt, Hiram P

congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1835 to 1837, and again from 1839 to 1843.

Hunt, James B

congressman, was born in 1799 in New York. He was a member of congress from Michigan from 1843 to 1847. He died Aug. 15, 1857, in Washington, D. C.

Hunt, Jedediah

poet, was born Dec. 28, 1815, in Candor, N. Y. He is a poet of Chilo, Ohio, and the author of Cottage Maid, a Tale in Rhyme.

Hunt, John Wesley

physician, was born Oct. 10, 1834, in Groveland, N. Y.

He served on the house surgical staff in Bellevue hospital, New York city, and began practice in Jersey City, N. J. In 1862 he was made brigade-surgeon of volunteers, and placed in charge of the Mill Creek hospital, near Fortress Monroe.

Hunt, Jonathan

congressman. He represented the state of Vermont in congress from 1827 to 1832. He died May 14, 1832, in Washington, D. C.

Hunt, Randall

lawyer, orator, statesman, was born in 1807 in South Carolina. He became a successful lawyer and orator of New Orleans, La. In 1866 he was chosen United States senator; but the seat was refused him on his arrival in Washington, because of his attitude during the secession movement. During 1867- 84 he was president of the university of Louisiana; and was also professor of law in that institution during 1847-88. He died March 22, 1892, in New Orleans, La.

Hunt, Richard Morris

architect, was born Oct. 31, 1828, in Brattleboro, Vt.

Among the structures designed by him are the Lenox library; the Presbyterian hospital; the Tribune building; the Central Park entrances in New York city. He also designed the Yorktown monument of Virginia; and the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island.

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Hunt, Samuel

congressman. was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1802 to 1805.

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