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three pieces of artillery and 300 stand of small arms; on the 8th he formed a junction with Generals Crook and Averell at Staunton and moved on Lj'nchburg by way of Lexington, where he burned the place, including the bar- racks, mess hall, officers' quarters and library of 10,000 volumes belonging to the Virginia Military institute, sparing only the Washington univer- sity, and on the 16th of June he invested Lynch- burg. He had skirmishes with the Confederates defending the city on the 17th and 18th, but for want of ammunition he made no general attack, but fell back by the Kanawha river, his only available route of retreat. This brought his army to the Ohio river, and this movement left the valley for several weeks at the mercy of Early, who, taking advantage of the opportunity, made his raid on Washington. General Sheridan superseded Hunter in the command of the Valley of Virginia, and Hunter was on leave of absence from Aug. 8, 1864, till Feb. 1, 1865, when he was placed on court-martial and other duty at Wash- ington. He was president of the military com- mission that tried the conspirators against the lives of the President and his cabinet in 1865. He was brevetted major-general U.S.A., March 13, 1865, and was mustered out of the volunteer service in January, 1866. He was retired from active service, having reached the age limit, July 31, 1866, and he made his home in Washington, D.C., where he died Feb. 2, 1886.

HUNTER, John Ward, representative, was born in Bedford, Kings county, N.Y., Oct. 15, 1807 ,- son of William and Jane (Ward) Hunter and grandson of AVilliam Hunter, of Monmouth, N.J., a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He was educated in the public schools of his native city, and was clerk in the New York custom house, 1831-37, and assistant auditor, 1837-65, when he resigned. He was married, April 9, 1833, to Hester A. Strang, a descendant of Daniel and Charlotte L'Estrange, French Huguenots, who came to America in 1688. He was elected a repre- sentative in the 39th congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative James Humphrey, serving through the entire second session, 1860-67. He was a member of the board of education from its organization to 1875, a period of about forty years; was mayor of the city of Brooklyn, 1875-76; director in several trust and insurance companies, first president of the Society of Brooklynites, and president of the St. Nicholas society several years. He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., April 16, 1900.

HUNTER, Joseph Rufus, educator, was born at Apex, Wake county, N.C., June 6, 1865; son of Joseph Calvin and Piannetta (Beckwith) Hunter; grandson of Alsey Hunter and of Green and Lucintha (Holland) Beckwith, and a de-

scendant of Isaac Hunter, of Wake county, N.C., and of Isaac Beckwith, of Chatham county. N.C. He was graduated from Wake Forest college, N.C, A.B., 1885, A.M., 1889; taught in pri- vate scliools in North Carolina, 1885-88: was a student at Wake Forest college, 1888-90, a student of chemistry at Johns Hopkins univer- sity, 1890-91, and professor of pliysics and matlie- maticsat the State normal school, Oshkosh, Wis,, 1891-93. He returned to the study of chemistry at Johns Hopkins in 1893, received his Ph.D. de- gree in 1895, and in 1895 was elected professor of chemistry at Richmond college, Va. He was elected a member of the American Chemical society, of the German Chemical society, and a fellow of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science. He is the author of con- tributions on chemical subjects to scientific journals.

HUNTER, Lewis Boudinot, naval surgeon, was born in Princeton, N.J., Oct. 9, 1801; son of the Rev. Andrew (q. v.) and Mary (Stockton) Hun- ter, and grandson of Richard Stockton, the signer. He was graduated at Princeton, A.B., 1824, A.M., 1827, and at the University of Penn- sylvania, M.D., 1828. He entered the U.S. navy as surgeon, and was on board the Princeton, Feb. 28, 1844,. at the time of the accident on the Potomac river, by which Abel Parker Upshur, secretary of state, and Thomas W. Gilmer, secre- tary of the navy, were killed by the bursting of a gun. He served on board the Saratoga in the Mexican war, and as fleet-surgeon of the North Atlantic squadron under Admiral Porter in the civil war. He ^^as made medical director with the rank of commodore and was retired March 3, 1871. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 24, 1887.

HUNTER, riorton Craig, soldier, was born in Versailles, Ind., Feb. 5, 1825. He was prepared for college at Versailles and Wilmington, and was graduated at Indiana university, LL.B., in 1848. He settled as a lawyer in Bloomington, Ind., and was a representative in the state legislature, 1858. He served in the civil war as colonel of the 82d Indiana volunteers, and was under General Thomas from Stone's river to Chickamauga, and under General Sherman to the close of the war. He is credited with saving the day at Chicka- mauga, and when before Atlanta was assigned to the command of the 1st brigade, 3d division, 14th army cor]is, and he led his brigade in the march to the sea and through the Carolinas, and was mustered out at Washington, D.C., in 1865. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, March 13, 1865. He was a Republican represent- ative in the 40th congress, 1867-69, and in the 43d, 44th and 45th congresses, 1873-79, and was named as an available candidate for governor. He died at Bloomington, Ind., Oct. 25, 1896.