History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 594.
[Scott County]  [Georgetown City and Precinct]

REV. JOHN G. HUNTER, Georgetown; has been pastor of the Presbyterian Church
of Georgetown, for eleven years, during which time there have been added 
to his church one hundred and fifty persons, and have been contributed by his
church about $30,000.  Mr. Hunter was born in Maysville, Mason County, Ky.,
Nov. 13. 1840.  His father, Mr. N. D. Hunter, now of Louisville, is of a
family who are the descendants of Sir Robert Hunter, of Scotland, the
second son of Hunter of Hunterston, who served in the English army under
the great Duke of Marlborough, was knighted for gallantry, and rose to the
rank of Major-General; he was afterward appointed Governor-General of New
York and New Jersey, when those States were under the British crown. Some
of these Hunters married into the family of Sir Francis Drake of the
English Navy, and some into the family connected with Sir William Wallace's
family of Scotland.  The father and mother of N. D. Hunter, John Hunter,
and Jeanie Wallace, lived in West Chester County, New York, on the Hudson,
and by blood and marriage were connected with the distinguished Dickinson
family of New York and New Jersey; with the Edwards and Burrs, Presidents
of Princeton College; with the Garnisses and Chases, both the Bishop and
Chief Justice of the United State Supreme Court. The mother of J. G. Hunter
was the daughter of Mr. George Herbst, a wealthy banker of Maysville, the
son of a German nobleman, a burgomaster of Cassel, in Germany.  In 1861,
the Rev. J. G. Hunter was graduated from Center COllege, Danville,
Kentucky, and began the study of law, but gave up the profession to enter
the service in the Confederate States Army, and near the close of the war
he was commissioned a Captain while on furlough at Richmond, by Secretary
of War Selden.  In 1867 he was matriculated at Union Theological SEminary,
Hampden Sidney, Virginia, and after a three years' course of study he was
licensed to preach the gospel, and entered upon his life work at Georgetown
where he has achieved a successful ministry.  In 1871 he married Miss
Catharine Breckinridge Waller, daughter of Henry Waller, formerly of Mason
County, Ky.  By this marriage he is connected with the Breckinridges,
Paynes, Langhornes, amongst the most distinguished families in the State.

Hunter Drake Dickinson Wallace Herbst Waller Breckinridge Payne
Langhorne Edward Burr Garnisse Chase
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Mason-KY Jefferson-KY Boyle-KY West_Chester-NY NJ VA Germany Scotland

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