William Hunter
Goodspeed's History of Southeast Missouri
Biographies of Scott County, 1888
William Hunter, senior from the Twenty-third Senatorial District of Missouri, was born in Mississippi County Mo., on September 11, 1848, and is son of Thomas Hunter, a native of Southeast Missouri. He was born in New Madrid County, May 17, 1808 and was a son of Joseph Hunter. [The early history of the Hunter family is given in detail in another part of this work]. In December 1830, Thomas Hunter married Eliza Myers, who was born March 13, 1813, at Benton, Mo., and died in Belmont, September 13, 1861. She was a daughter of William Myers, who settled on the present site of Benton and reared a large family of children. The Myers family removed from North Carolina to Tennessee, and from the latter State to Southeast Missouri about 1796. Thomas Hunter's home was on the Mississippi River, in Mississippi County. He died in Claiborne County, Miss., on July 1, 1863. To him and wife were born seven children, as follows: Hannah, September 19, 1831, died in infancy; Sarah December 13, 1832, died in infancy; Margaret E., November 1, 1835, died on December 8, 1853; Nancy C., September 3, 1838, married to Thomas Brown on November 30, 1856, and died in Kentucky on February 16, 1868, leaving a husband and four children; Lavina, January 5, 1845, died in infancy; William, September 11, 1848, and Mary Eliza, January 8, 1856, died at the Female Seminary of Georgetown, Ky., on June 5, 1873. William Hunter was reared on his father's farm. In 1861 he went his father to Claiborne County, Miss. He was a student in Jefferson College, Louisiana, in 1866-67; taught school in Hickman County, KY., in 1868, and entered Georgetown College, Kentucky, in 1869, graduating from that institution in 1872. He then entered the Harvard Law School, graduating there in June, 1874. During vacation in the summer of 1873 Mr. Hunter traveled in Europe. He was first admitted to the bar in Cambridge, Mass., December 8, 1873, and the next year was admitted to the bar in Illinois. In January 1875, he became a member of the bar at commerce, Mo., moved to Benton in 1880, where he now lives and is engaged in the practice of law. In 1876 he was elected prosecuting attorney for Scott County, and twice re-elected. In 1883 he was nominated by the Democratic convention and elected to represent the Twenty-third District, composed of the counties of Scott, Mississippi, New Madrid, Stoddard, Dunklin and Pemiscot in the State Senate, and was appointed by Gov. Marmaduke chairman of the committee to settle with State officers. In the last session he served as chairman of the committee on Ways and Means and was a member of the committees on Criminal Jurisprudence; railroads and Corporations; University, Public and Normal Schools, and several other committees. On December 31, 1876, Mr. Hunter was united in marriage with Ella Walker, a native of New Madrid, born on December 6, 1853. Their union has been blessed by the birth of five children, three of whom are living. The children are Lynn, Mabel, Thomas (deceased), Mary Amanda (deceased) and William P.
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