JOHN REED HUNT

John Reed Hunt, son of Caleb Seaver (class of 32) and Sarah (Reed) Hunt, was born June 19, 1843, at Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts. He pursued his preparatory studies at Newton, Massachusetts, and entered Dartmouth College at the beginning of Freshman Fall term, August 24, 1860.

He was with us for the last time at the first recitation of Junior year, in the Fall of 1862. He then left college and enlisted in the United States Navy, serving as Secretary to the Commandant of the Squadron off Charleston, South Carolina, and also as signal officer. In 1864 he resigned his position in the navy and went to New Mexico, where he was engaged in merchandising, contracting, etc. While there, he held appointments as deputy internal revenue assessor, postmaster, alcalde, notary public, and colonel of militia. In 1870 he went into business at New Orleans, Louisiana, where his home was. He remained there until 1879, when he went to the San Juan country, in Colorado, and engaged in mining, where he still remains. He is located at Animas Forks, Colorado, of which city he is now serving his second term as Mayor. A copy of the Animas Forks Pioneer speaks of him as "Colonel Hunt, our worthy and popular Mayor." He writes that the details of his career would fill a book.

In politics, he is a Democrat. He has never married

Source: "Memorialia of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884, Chicago

Submitted by Deborah Crowell