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HUNT, Ezra Mundy, physician, was born in Metuchea, N.J.. Jan. 4. 1830; sou of the Rev, HoUowiiy W. andHemietta (Mundy) Hunt. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1849 Ivnd at the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, Now York, in 1852. He practised medi- cine in Metuchen, N. J., 1853-70 ; was lecturer at the Verinout Medical college, 1854, and was elected professor of chemistry there in 1854, but declined. He was regimental surgeon in the U.S. volunteer army, 1862-63, and in charge of hospital at Baltimore, Md., 1863-65. He was president of the New Jersey sanitary commis- sion. 1874 ; of the State Medical softiety ; vice- president of the American Medical association ; secretary of the New Jersey board of health, 1877- 94. and a delegate to the international medical congresses at London. 18S1, and at Copenliagen, 1884. He was instructor in hygiene in the New Jersey State Normal scliool, Trenton, 1876-94. He received the degree of D.Sc. from Princeton in 1882 and tliatof LL.D. from Lafayette in 1890. He published : Patients' and Physicians' Aid (1859) ; Pliysici'tns' Counsels (1859) ; Alcohol as a Food arul M'dicine (1877) ; Princij^les of Hygiene, to- gether with the Essentials of Anatomy and Physi- ology (1887). He also published : The War and its Lessons (1862) ; Grace Culture (1865) ; Bible Notes for Daily Readers (2 vols., 1870). He died in Trenton, N.J., July 1, 1894.

HUNT, Freeman, publisher, was born in Quiucy, Mass., March 21. 1804; son of Nathan and Mary (Turner) Hunt and grandson of Adam and Hannah (Stetson) Hunt. When twelve years of age lie entered the printing office of the Boston Evening Gazette, wliere he learned the trade of printing. He was subsequently em- ployed on the Boston Traye/er. Inl828he estab- lisiied The Ladies' Magazine, with Sarah J. Hale as editor. He sold the magazine and renewed the Penny Mngazine, which he abandoned to be- come managing director of the Bewick company, an association of authors, artists, printers and bo<jkbinders. For this company he established and edited the American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge. He also published tlif Juvenile Miscellany. In 1831 he removed to New York city and established The Traveler, a ■weekly newspHi)er. He conceived the publica- tion of the Merchants' Magazine in 1837, and is- sued the first number in July. 1839. He pub- lisiied the first volume of the '" Library of Com- merce" in 1845, and continued to erlit Hunt's Merchants' Magazine up to the time of his death, when it was carried on by his succes-sors till 1870. At the close of its sixty-third volume it was merged in the Commercial and Financial Chron- icle. He was married to Elizabeth T., daughter of Willinin Parmenter, of Cambridge, Mass., and

theirson. Freeman, was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1877, LL.B., 1881, and was a member of the Cambridge school committee, 1883-87 ; of the common council, 1888, and of the state senate, 1891. Freeman Hunt, Sr., was elected a member of the New England Historic Cenealogic-al. society in 1855. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Union college in 18.50. He is the autliorof : Anecdotes and Sketches of Female Character (ISSO); American Anecdotes (2 vols., 1830); Comprehen- sive Atlas (1834) ; The Hudson River and its Vicinity (1836) ; Worth aiid Wealth (1856) ; Lives of American Merchants (2 vols.. 1856-57). He died in Brooklyn. N.Y., March 2. 1858.

HUNT, Harriot Keziah, physician, was born in Boston, iSIass.. in 1805: daughter of Joab and Keziah (Wentworth) Hunt, and granddaughter of Joab and Sarah (Adams) Hunt. She was •well educated and taught school until 1833, when, with her sister, Sarah Augusta, she began the study of medicine under Dr. Valentine Mott. They opened an office in Cambridge and Boston in 1835. and were probably the only women prac- tising medicine in the United States. Her sister relinquished the profession in 1840 and was mar- ried to Edmund Wright. Miss Hunt founded a ladies' pliysiological society of fifty members at her home in Cambridge in 1843. She was well known as an advocate of woman suffrage and other reforms and won success as a lecturer. In 1847 she was refused admission to the Harvard medical lectures. The Woman's Medical college of Piiiladelphia conferred on her the degree of M.D. in 1853. She published : Glances and Glimpses; or Fifty Years' Social, including Twenty Years' Professional, Life (ISoG). She died ill Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 2, 1875.

HUNT, Henry Jackson, soldier, was born in Detroit, Mich., Sept. 14, 1819 ; son of Lieut. Sam- uel W. Hunt, of the 3d U.S. infantry, and grand- son of Col. Thomas Hunt, of the 1st U.S. infan- tiy. Henry was graduated at the U.S. Military academy in 1839, and served in the 2d artillery on the Canadian frontier and in garrison and re- cruiting service till June 18, 1846, when he was promoted 1st lieutenant and ordered to Mexico. In the Mexican campaign he was brevetted captain for gallantry at Contreras and Cliurn- busco and major for Chapultepec. His service included all the battles under General Scott, and he was twice wounded at Molino del Rey, and was present at the capture of the city of Mexico. He was promoted captain, Sept. 22, 1852, and was placed in command of Harper's Ferry, Jan. 3, 1861 ; was promoted major. May 14, 1861, and commanded tiie artillery on the extreme left at Bull Run, July 21. 1861. He was in charge of the defences of Washington. July to Septem- ber, 1861, and was assigned to the staff of General