Hunt, Thomas Poage – Hunter, Robert Mercer Talia- Ferro
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, Ward
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born June 14, 1810, in Utica, N. Y. In 1838 he was elected a member of the assembly; and was reelected in 1839. In 1844 he was elected mayor of Utica; and in 1865 was elected a judge of the court of appeals of the state of New York, which position he held until 1872, when he was appointed a justice of the supreme court of the United States. He died March 24, 1886, in Washington, D. C.
Hunt, Washington
lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born Aug. 5, 1811, in Windham, N. Y. In 1836 he was appointed first judge of Niagara county.
He was a representative in congress from 1843 to 1849. In 1849 he was elected comptroller of New York; and in 1850 governor of the state. In 1860 he was tendered the nomination for the office of vice-president, but declined. He was a delegate to the Chicago convention in 1864, and to the Philadelphia national union convention in 1866. He died Feb. 2, 1867, in New York city.
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 Henry
educator, lawyer, jurist, lecturer, born June 12, 1824, in Charleston, S. C. He was acting professor and lecturer on commercial and criminal law in the university of Louisiana in 1865 and 1866; and in 1876 was appointed attorney-general of Louisiana to fill a vacancy. He was subsequently elected to that office, serving until 1877. In 1878 he was appointed a judge of the United States court of claims; resigned in 1881, to become secretary of the navy in the cabinet of President Garfield. He died Feb. 27, 1884.
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. H.
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.
Hunter, Andrew
clergyman, was born in 1752 in Virginia. He was appointed a brigade chaplain in 1775, and served throughout the revolution, receiving the public thanks of Gen. Washington for valuable aid at the battle of Monmouth. In 1810 he became a chaplain in the navy. He died Feb. 24, 1823, in Washington, D. C.
Hunter, Andrew J
engineer, lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 17, 1831, in Greencastle, Ind. He was elected to the state senate in 1864, and served four years. He was appointed and served as a member of the board of investigation of state institutions. He was elected county judge of the Edgar county court in 1886 and again in 1890, serving six years. In 1892 he was nominated by the state convention as a candidate for congressman at large, and was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat.
Hunter, David
soldier, was born July 21, 1802, in Washington, D. C. In 1822 he graduated from the United States Military academy. In 1861 he was made major-general of volunteers; and he contributed much to the success at Fort Donelson. After retiring from active service in 1866 he made his homein Washington, D. C. He married a daughter of John Kinzie, who was noted for having been the first permanent citizen of Chicago. He died Feb. 2, 1886, in Washington, D. C.
Hunter, Edwin Gustavus
clergyman, missionary, journalist, was born Jan. 21, 1846, in Canada. This eminent clergyman is the editor of The Church Worker, a diocesan paper published in Indianapolis, Ind.
Hunter, Ellsworth M
journalist, was born April 11, 1861, in Hubbardton, Vt. He is the editor and owner of The Vermont Record of Fair Haven. He has been a member of the republican county committee; and for many years was judge of the police court.
Hunter, John
congressman, United States senator, was born about 1760 in South Carolina. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1793 to 1795; and a senator in congress from that state from 1795 to 1796.
Hunter, John Dunn
adventurer, author, was born about 1798 in Settlement west of the Mississippi. He was an adventurer whose Manners and Customs of the Indian Tribes West of the Mississippi once attracted much attention. He died in 1827 near Nacogdoches, Texas.
Hunter, John Garniss
soldier, clergyman, college president, was born Nov. 13, 1840, in Maysville, Ky. He received his education at the Centre college, Ky.; and at the Union Theological seminary of Virginia. During the war he was a captain in the confederate service. He is a successful clergyman of the Southern Presbyterian church; has been secretary of the board of curators of the Central university of Kentucky; and president of the Louisville Presbyterian Theological seminary. In 1882 the honorary degree of D. D. was conferred upon him. He is the author of a number of valuable review articles, and has contributed extensively to religious and educational literature.
Hunter, John Ward
was born Oct.. 15, 1807, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1865 he accepted the position of secretary of a banking institution in Brooklyn; and in 1866 was elected, by a large majority, a representative from New York to the thirty-ninth congress.
Hunter, Lewis Boudinot
surgeon, was born Oct. 9, 1804, in Princeton, N. J.
He served during the Mexican war on the Saratoga, and during the civil war as fleet-surgeon of the North Atlantic squadron under Admiral Porter. In 1871 he was made medical director, with the rank of commodore, and retired. He died June 24, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa. as
Hunter, Morton Craig
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 5, 1825, in Versailles, Ind. In 1858 he was elected to the state legislature; and in 1860 was a presidential elector. In 1862 he raised the eighty-second regiment of Indiana volunteers, and colonel commanded it until the fall of Atlanta in 1864; and in 1865 was brevetted a brigadier-general. In 1866 he was elected a representative from Indiana to the fortieth congress; and elected to the forty-third, forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses as a republican.
Hunter, Naisworthy
congressman. He was a delegate in congress from the territory of Mississippi from 1801 to 1802. He died March 11, 1802.
Hunter, Robert
governor. In 1707 he was appointed colonial governor of Virginia; in 1710 was appointed governor of New York and of East and West. New Jersey. He died March 11, 1734.
Hunter, Robert
physician, author, was born June 14, 1826, in England. He has attained prominence as a successful. physician of Chicago and New York. He is the author of A Treatise on the Lungs and their Diseases; The Air as the Source of Life; and others.
Hunter, Robert Mercer Talia- Ferro
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, United States senator, born April 21, 1809, in Essex county, Va. He served. three years in the state legislature; and was first elected a representative in congress from his native state in 1837, when he served two terms; and was again elected in 1845, officiating during the twenty-sixth congress as speaker. In 1847 he was elected a senator in congress for a long term, and re-elected for the term ending in 1859. He was re-elected to the senate in 1859 for another term, but was expelled in 1861. He took part in the rebellion as secretary of state, and a member of congress in the confederate government. He died July 18, 1887, in Essex county, Va.