Marshall County Biographies
JOHN H. HUNT.
John H. Hunt, one of Bigelow township's well-known and progressive
farmers and stockmen and the proprietor of a well-improved farm in section 13 of that township, is a native of Tennessee, but has lived in this
county since the days of his infancy. He was born at Lebanon, in Wilson
county, Tennessee, April 17, 1870, son of Henry N. and Elizabeth (Champion) Hunt, both now deceased,
the former of whom was born in that same community and the latter in the state of Massachusetts, who became pioneers
of Marshall county.
Henry N. Hunt was born on June 13, 1813, and grew to manhood in
Wilson county, Tennessee, the place of his birth. On November 3, 1854,
in that county, he was united in marriage to Elizabeth Champion, who was
born at Lowell, Massachusetts, December 29, 1834, and he continued to
make his home in Tennessee until the year 1870, when he became attracted
to the possibilities that then were opening to the earnest settler in Kansas and
moved out to this state, settling on a farm of sixty-seven acres just north
of Blue Rapids, in the township of that name, that having been before the
original Blue Rapids township was divided into four, and there he spent
his last days, his death occurring on June 28, 1875, just about the time he
was becoming well established on his farm. His widow later married Thomas
Donahue and continued to make her home in this county the rest of her
life, her death occurring on October 25, 1895. Henry N. Hunt and wife
were the parents of seven children, those besides the subject of this sketch,
the fourth in order of birth, being as follows: Henry N., who died at Mulhall, Oklahoma, in 1916; William S., who is living in Oklahoma; James R.,
of Blue Rapids City township, and Carrie, Mary and Sarah, deceased.
John H. Hunt was but five years of age when his father died. He
was reared on a farm, attending the district school in the neighborhood of
his home in Blue Rapids City township, and at the age of fifteen began
working as a farm hand in that neighborhood, later working with his step-father as a teamster in bridge-construction work. He was married in 1888
and in 1893 began farming, renting land in Wells township, where he lived
until 1907, when he bought his present farm in section 13 of Bigelow township, where he since has made his home and where he and his family are
very comfortably situated. Mr. Hunt is the owner of two hundred and
forty acres of land and his farm is well-improved and profitably cultivated.
In addition to his general farming he is giving considerable attention to the
raising of high-grade Hereford cattle and Duroc-Jersey hogs and is doing
very well.
On June 4, 1888, John H. Hunt was united in marriage to Ella Davis,
who was reared in the neighborhood county of Nemaha, daughter of Daniel
and Maria (Seward) Davis, natives, respectively, of Kentucky and of Virginia, who came to Kansas about the year 1869 and settled on a farm east
of Corning, in Nemaha county, remaining there until about 1883, when they
came over into Marshall county and located in Blue Rapids City township,
where Daniel Davis farmed the rest of his life, his death occurring in 1907,
he then being seventy-two years of age. His widow is still living, being
now in her eighty-fifth year. To Mr. and Mrs. Hunt four children have
been born, namely: Daniel H., who married Cordelia Smith, of Bigelow, and
is now farming at Bigelow: Albert C, who married Velma Carpenter, also
of Bigelow, and is now farming in the vicinity of Hoxie, in Sheridan county,
this state; Ruth R., who married Frank Morton, a farmer, of Wells township, and has one child, a son, Charles L., and Charles Lester, who is at
home ably assisting his father in the management of the home farm. The
Hunts are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and take a proper
interest in church work, as well as in the general social affairs of the community
in which they live, helpful in advancing all good causes thereabout.
Mr. Hunt is a Democrat, but has never been included in the office-seeking
class.
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