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Hunt, Leigh,

S. J., e<lucator, college pres-

wns born in Indiana. He was an edueator; and became president of the state industrial college of Iowa. ident,

Hunt, Lewis Cass, soldier, was born Feb. 1824, in Green Bay, Wis. In 1847 he graduated from the United States military academy. He served in the United States army; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier23.

general of volunteers. In 188<) lie attained the rank of colonel in the fourteenth regiment, United States infantry. He died Sept. fi. 1886, in Fort Union, N. Mex.

Hunt, Maurice Patterson, educator, pliywas born Feb. 28. 1853, in Delaware county, Ohio. In 1893-95 he was professor of gynecology and obstetrics in the hom<popathic medical college at Ann Arbor, Mich.; and since 1895 has practiced medicine in Columbus, Ohio. He has been president of the homeopathic medical society of Ohio. sician,

lawyer, orator, college in 1807 in South Caroa successful lawyer and orator of New Orleans, La. In 1866 he was chosen United States senator; but the seat was refused him on his arrival in Washington, because of his attitude during the secession movement. During 1867-84 he was president of the university of Louisiana; and was also professor of law in that instiHe died March 22. tution during 1847-88. 1892, in New Orleans, La.

Hunt,

Randall,

president,

was born

He became

lina.

Hunt, Richard Howland, designer, archiwas born March 14, 1862, in France. assisted his father as architect on the work of the United States military academy at West Point; and also on Vandertect,

He

bilt's

estate at Biltmore, N.C.

He designed

hall and Hoffman hall of the university of the south: and Kissnn hall of the Vanderbilt university. Hunt, Richard Morris, designer, architect, was born Oct. 31, 1828. in Brattleboro, Vt. Among the structures ilesigned by him are the Lenox library; the Presbyterian hospital: the Tribune building; and the

Quintard

Hunt, Samuel, lawyer, congressman, was born in New Hampshire. He practiced law in Alstead until 1705. He was a member of the New Hampshire state legislature. In 1801-05 he was a representative from New Hampshire to the seventh congress and to the eighth congress to fill a vacancy. He died in 1807 in Alstead, HM. Hunt, Samuel, lawyer, congressman, was born March 18, 1810, in Attleboro, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Franklin, Itlass. He assisted Henry Wilson in writing The Rise of the Slave Power, and complettnl the work after Mr. Wilson's death. He was the author of Political Duties of Christians; and Letter to the Avowed Friends of Missions. He died July 23, 187H, in Boston, Mass.

Hunt, Samuel, railroad president, was born in August, 1849, in Morrow, Ohio. He was president of the Cincinnati. Portsmouth and Virginia railroad: and the Ohio River and Charleston railroad; and has also been prebident of various other roads. He was recently appointed receiver by the United States circuit court, for the Toledo. St. Louis and Kansas City railroad. He died in

1905 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Hunt, Sanford Bebee, surgeon, journalist, author, was born in 1825 in New York. He is a journalist and surgeon of Buffalo, N.Y. and for many years was associated with the Methodist book concern. He was the author of History of the United States Sanitary Commission; and The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. He died in I8S4 in Buffalo, N.Y. Hunt, Theodore

Hunt, Theodore Whitefield, educator, auwas born Feb. 19, 1844, in Metuchen, In 18(15 he graduated from Princeton college: in 1869 graduated from Princeton theological seminary; and in 1871-72 studdied in the university of Berlin. Since 1873 he has been a professor of English language and literature at Princeton college.

museum. He als designed Vorktown monument of Virginia: and

the f>ed«*8t.al of the Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island. He died July 31, 1895. in

Newport, R.T. Hunt, Robert Woolston, nu-tallurgist.

in-

was horn

Dec. 9. IS38. in FallsingIn IHChi lu- cstablislie.l tht- fir!*t analytical laborat«»ry connected with any iron or steel works in the United States, In 1873 he was calletl to the charge of the Bessemer steel works in Troy. N.Y. ; to the Albany and Rensselaer irfm and steel conipany in 1875; and in 1885 of its successor, the Troy steel and iron c<»mpany. He has obtainecl patents for improvements iy bottom casting of steel ingots for making special soft Bessemer steel; for a recarburi/er for Bessemer steel: an«l also a series relating to automatic tables for rolling-mills.

ventor, ton.

congressman, was born

thor, N.J.

Metropolitan the

G.,

South Carolina. In 1853-55 he was a representative from Louisiana to the thirtythird congress. He died in South Carolina. in

He

is the author of Principles of Written

I'a.

Discourse

Prose Writers;



English Prose

and

Literature, Its Principles and I'roblems; The English Meditative Lyrics; Stunt. author, was born May IS, 1808. in Charleston, S.C. He rem«»v«'d to New Orleans, where he was a