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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
MICHIGAN CITY DISPATCH
(weekly edition)

Thursday, May 2, 1907 (on front page)

ANDREW B. HUNT STRICKEN WITH
HEART DISEASE.
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Was Seventy-five Years Old and
Had Lived in the County Seventy Years.
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A. B. Hunt, who had lived in
Laporte County seventy years,
who during his adult life had
held a formost place among the
agricultural element of the
county, and who made a good
record in civil life and gave
his services to the country
during the civil war, died
suddenly of heart disease
Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock
at his late home one mile and
a quarter east of Waterford.
Mr. and Mrs. Hunt had been in
the city trading during the
forenoon and started home
shortley after noon. After they
had arrived home and Mr. Hunt
had put his horses in the barn
he walked into the house and
immediately dropped onto the
floor unconscious. Mrs. Hunt
summoned some of her neighbors
and a doctor from this city,
but when the physician arrived
there was no signs of life. In
fact, Mr. Hunt's death was almost
instantaneous. For months Mr.
Hunt had been afflicted with
heart trouble, and at the time
he was to this city he complained
to some of his friends he had
eaten very little in three days,
owing to an affection of the throat,
which resembled paralysis.

Andrew B. Hunt, better known as
Bowen Hunt, was born Feb 27, 1832,
in Tioga County, New York, and
was therefore in his seventy-
sixth year, having celebrated
his seventy-fifth birthday last
February. His father was Seth
W. Hunt, a native of Pennsylvania
and a blacksmith, who came to
this county in 1837 and brought
his family here in 1838. He
lived at first in a little log
cabin in Coolspring township,
and, with the exception of a
few years spent on a farm near
Laporte, he lived there
continuously until his death
at the age 78 years.

A. B. Hunt was brought to Laporte
County when he was five years
old, and he was the only
representative of the family
now living in this county. Mr.
Hunt lived at his father's home in
Coolspring township during his
boyhood and attended the log
school house of the neighborhood,
assisting in the farm work until
he was of age, when he started at
farming for himself. He was
married on Feb 18, 1862 to Miss
Mary Redding, a cousin of Mrs. John
Blue of this city, who was a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Josiah
Redding and was born in Center
township on Feb 4, 1845.

After his marriage Mr. Hunt and
his wife settled in a block
house, 22x32 feet, on the same
farm which had been their home
to the present time, nearly forty-
five years. As they became
better fixed in the world's
goods they erected a substantial
home in 1865, and this has
ever since been their abode.

In February, 1865, Mr. Hunt
responded to the last call for
troops, and enlisted in Co. B,
155th Indiana, serving till the
close of the war, when he returned
home and devoted himself to the
occupation which had since been
his chief activity.

Mr. Hunt is survived by his widow
and one brother, Jacob W. Hunt of
O'Neill, Neb.





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