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Hunt, Samuel

clergyman, author, was born March 18, 1810, in Attleboro, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Franklin, Mass. He assisted Henry Wilson in writing The Rise of the Slave Power, and completed the work after Mr. Wilson's death. He was author of Political Duties of Christians; and Letter to the Avowed Friends of Missions. He died July 23, 1878, in Boston, Mass.

Hunt, Samuel

railroad president, was born in August, 1849, in Morrow, Ohio. He is president of the Ohio River and Charleston railroad; and has also been president of various other roads.

Hunt, Sanford

clergyman, author, was born in 1825 in New York. He was a methodist clergyman of prominence, long associated with the Methodist Book Concern. He was the author of Handbook for Trustees of Religious Corporations in the State of New York; and Laws Relating to Religious Corporations in the United States. He died in 1896.

Hunt, Theodore G

congressman, was born in South Carolina. He was a representative in the thirty-third congress from Louisiana.

HUNT, THEODORE WHITEFIELD, educator, author, poet, was born Feb. 19, 1844, in Metuchen, N. J. He is an educator, professor of English literature in Princeton college; and the author of Principles of Written Discourse; English Prose and Prose Writers; and Ethical Teachings in Old English Literature.

Hunt, Thomas

educator, physician, surgeon, college president, author, was born May 18, 1808, in Charleston, S. C.

He removed to New Orleans, where he was a founder of the university of Louisiana, and its first professor of anatomy. He was house-surgeon to the Charity hospital; president of the Physico-medical society of New Orleans; and in 1866 of the university of Louisiana. He died March 30, 1867, in New Orleans, La.

Hunt, Thomas Poage

clergyman, lecturer, author, was born in 1794, in Charlotte county, Va. He was a clergyman and temperance lecturer of Pennsylvania; and the author of History of Jesse Johnson and his Times; Death by Measure; and Liquor Selling, a History of Fraud, which include the most of his works. He died Dec. 5, 1876, in Wyoming Valley, Pa.

Hunt, Thomas Sterry

educator, geologist, author, was born Sept. 5, 1826, in Norwich, Conn. He was a geologist who was professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1872-78; and the author of Chemical and Geological Essays; Azoic Rocks; Mineral Physiology; and New, Basis for Chemistry. He died in 1892.

Hunt, Timothy Atwater

naval officer, was born in 1805, in New Haven, Conn. He entered the navy as midshipman in 1825, became lieutenant in 1836, commander in 1855, captain in 1862, commodore in 1863, and was retired in 1877. He died Jan. 21, 1884, in New Haven, Conn.

Hunt, William

surgeon, author, was born Sept. 26, 1825, in Philadelphia, Pa. He has been demonstrator of anatomy in the university of Pennsylvania, and surgeon of the Episcopal and Wills hospitals, and surgeon of the Orthopedic and Pennsylvania hospitals. He is joint author of Surgery in the Pennsylvania Hospital, being an Epitome of the hospital since 1756.

Hunt, William Morris

artist, was born March 31, 1824, in Brattleboro, Vt.

He was one of the first to introduce the French School of Art into America, and many of his well-known pictures have been reproduced in lithographs. He died Sept. 8, 1879, in Isle of Shoals, N. Η.

Hunt, Woolston

soldier, metallurgist, inventor, was born Dec. 9, 1838, in Fallsington, Pa. He attained the rank of captain during the civil war. He has obtained patents for improvements in bottom casting of steel ingots; for making special soft Bessemer steel; and also automatic tables for rolling-mills.