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HUNT, Mary Hannah Hanchett, reformer, was born in Soutli Canaan, LitcliHelJ county, or in Litchfield. Conn., July 4, 1831; daughter of Epliraim and Nancy (Thacher) Hanchett, and a descendant of Governor Winslow, of the Plym- outh colony, 1633, and of the Rev. Tliomas Thacher, first pastor of the Old South church, Boston, Mass. Her father was an iron manufac- turer, an anti-slavery agitator and an advocate of total abstinence, being vice-president of the first temperance society organized in the United States. She was graduated from Patapsco insti- tute near Riltimore. Md., and was teacher of chemistry there until 1852, when she became the wife of Leander B. Hunt, of East Douglas. Mass. She began in 1870 the scientific study of the effects of alcohol on the human body. In order to reach the legislature and in this way the pub- lic schools by making temperance education com- pulsory, she laid her plan before the National "Woman's Christian Temperance union, which body, in 1880, created an educational department, of which she became the national superinten- dent. The legislature of Vermont was the first to make temperance education a part of the course in the public schools, and in 1896 all the states, with the exception of four out of the forty-five, had passed the law in their legislatures. Her appeal to the American Medical association at their annual national meeting in 1883 secured resolutions pointing out the evil effects of alco- holic drinks. Congress also enacted a law for the military, naval, territorial and other schools under government control. In 1890 she began to extend this reform to foreign lands and was made the national superintendent for the Woman's Christian Temperance union of the world. In 1892 she secured recognition in the provinces in Canada and Australia and in Sweden, and prom- ises of success in England, France, Germany, Norway, India and other parts of the civilized world. She attended the International Anti-Al- coholic congress held at Brussels under the aus- pices of the king of Belgium in 1897. Nearly thirty text-books on the topic of temperance were issued undir lierauspicesfor all gradesof schools. HUNT, Randell, educator, was born in Charles- ton. S.C, in 1825. He was admitted to the bar and became a distinguished lawyer. Ha removed to New Orleans, La., where in 1847 he was elected professor of constitutional law. couiinercial law and the law of evidence in the University of Louisiana, which had been founded that year by Dr. Francis L. Hawks and Dr. Tiiomas Hunt. He served, 1847-07, when he bpcame president of the institution as successor to Dr. Thomas Hunt, deceased, and he served. 1867-83. On the forma- tion of Tulane University of Louisiana on the foundation of the University of Louisiana, in 1883,

William Preston Johnston became president and Dr. Hunt was made emeritus rector and professor of constitutional law, commercial law and the law of evidence in the new institution. He received the degree of LL.D. from the university. He difd in New Orleans. La., in March, 1892.

HUNT, Richard Morris, architect, was born in Brattlehoro. Vt.. Oct. 31. 1828; son of Jona- tiiun and Jane Maria (Leavett) Hunt, and grand- son of Jonathan and Lavinia (Swan) Hunt. His mother removed to New Haven, Conn., after the death of his father, and he was educated in that city and at the Boston Latin .school. He went to Europe with his moth- er and brother in 1843, and studied architecture with Al- phonse Davier at Ge- neva, with Hector Lefuel in Paris, and atthe Ecole des Beaux Arts in 184.5-55. with

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Egypt and Asia Mi- ^f^Mn^^Ti^^t^p^^^-^ nor, .studying the ex- amples of ancient architecture. In 1S54-55 he was appointed by M. Lefuel to the position of architect of the buildings connecting the Louvre and the Tuileries, public works in his bureau, and under Mr. Hunt's supervision the designs for the Pavilion de la Bibliotheque, opposite the Palais Royal, were made, and the building constinicted. He returned to the United States in 1855, and was engaged on the work of the extensions to the national capitol under Architect T. U. Walter. He then organized a class in architecture in New York city on the plan of the Paris Ateliers, and from his school many noted architects were grad- viated. He served on the art juries of the Paris exposition of 1837, and the Centennial exhibition of 1876. He was decorated a Knight of the Legion of Honor b\' the government of Fiance in 1882, and was made a corresponding member of the Insti- tute of France in 1883. He was founder of the Municipal Art society of New York city and its first president; was a member of the Century associaticm, of the National Academy of Design, and of the Society of American Artists; jiresi- dent of the board of architects of the Columbian exposition and designer of the Administration building, Chicago, 1893; a member of the Archi- tectural League of New York; president of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and president of the institute, suc- ceeding T. U. Walter in 18S7; one of three American architects honored with a membership