E. A. Hunt

    E. A. Hunt was born in Litchfield County, Connecticut, August 11, 1828, and is the son of Mitchell and Mary (Kingsbury) Hunt. He received a good education in his youth, and at the age of sixteen began to learn tanning and currying, which he followed until 1849, when he went to New Haven, worked on a farm until 1857, and then moved to Illinois, where he farmed until 1874, when he came to this township (Gilboa),  where he owns a good farm of 160 acres and is engaged in general farming and stock-raising. His dwelling and other improvements are first-class, and his two barns are supplied with Church's patent hay elevator and carrier, for which he is the agent in Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton Counties.

    In 1855, he married Lydia A. Hemingway, a resident of New Haven County, Connecticut. Both are members of the Baptist Church, and are highly respected by their neighbors. the mother of Mr. Hunt died in 1835, and his father in 1869.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.