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city, 15 Oct., 1876. He entered the naval academy at Annapolis in 1855, but left in 1857, and became a student at Phillips Andover academy. At the beginning of the civil war he entered the navy, and became acting master on the war-sloop "Ju- niata," but resigned his commission toward the close of the war, and entered Harvard, where he was graduated in 1868. lie then became a report- er on the New York " Tribune." For a time he was financial editor of the New York •' Standard," and from 1871 to 1873 was Albany correspondent of the "Tribune," and was instrumental in ex- posing political corruption. In 1873 he became an editorial writer on the " Tribune," writing chiefly upon topics of finance and political economy. He was also associated with John F. Cleveland in the preparation of the " Tribune Almanac." Early in 1876 he joined the editorial staff of the New York " Times," where he continued until his death.

HUNT, Ezra Mundy, physician, b. in Middlesex county, N. J., 4 Jan., 1830. He was graduated at Princeton in 1849, and at the College of physicians and surgeons. New York city, in 1852. He began practice at Metuchen, lectured on materia medica in the Vermont medical college in 1854, and was elected professor of chemistry there in 1855, but declined. He joined the volunteer army as regi- mental surgeon in 1862, and in 1863 was placed in charge of a hospital in Baltimore, Md. He has been president of the American public health asso- ciation, and has contributed papers to eight vol- umes of " Public Health." Since 1876 he has been secretary of the New Jersey board of health, pre- paring all its reports, and since 1881 has conducted the sanitary department in the New York " Inde- pendent." He was a delegate to the International medical congresses at London (1881) and Copen- hagen (1884). His residence is in Trenton, N. J. He is instructor in hygiene in the State normal school. In 1883 he received the degree of Sc. D. from Princeton. He is the author of " Patients' and Physicians' Aid " (New York, 1859) ; " Physi- cians' Counsels " (Philadelphia, 1859) ; " Alcohol as a Food and Medicine" (New York, 1877); and " Principles of Hygiene, together with the Essen- tials of Anatomy and Physiology" (New York, 1887) ; also of works on religious subjects, especially "Grace Culture" (Philadelphia, 1865) and "Bible Notes for Daily Readers " (New York, 1870).

HUNT, Freeman, publisher, b. in Quincy, Mass., 21 March, 1804 ; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 2 March, 1858. He entered the office of .the Boston " Even- ing Gazette " at the age of twelve, learned the trade ofprinting, and while connected with the Boston " Traveller " obtained promotion by sending to the editor articles evincing journalistic talent. Soon after his apprenticeship was over he established " The Ladies' Magazine," with Sarah J. Hale as editor, which was very successful. He sold this, and renewed the publication of the " Penny Maga- zine," which proved profitable, but which he aban- doned to become managing director of the Bewick company, an association of authors, artists, print- ers, and bookbinders. While connected with this society, he founded and became editor of the " American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge." He also published in Boston the "Juvenile Miscellany." In 1831 he removed to New York and established "The Traveller," a weekly paper. In 1837 he projected " The Mer- chants' Magazine," the first number of which was issued in July, 1839. In 1845 he published the first volume of the '• Library of Commerce." " Hunt's Merchants' Magazine " was conducted by its founder to the end of the thirty-eighth volume, and after his death was continued as an independ- ent publication till 1870, sixty-three volumes hav- ing been issued, when it was converted into a weekly, and merged in the " Commercial and Fi- nancial Chronicle." The statistical and other in- formation collected in this magazine was valuable, trustworthy, and useful, not only to merchants, but to all persons concerned in practical affairs. Mr. Hunt's publications in book-form include " An- ecdotes and Sketches of Female Character " (Bos- ton, 1830) ; " American Anecdotes, Original and Selected, by an American " (2 vols., 1830) ; " Com- prehensive Atlas " (New York, 1834) ; " Letters about the Hudson River and its Vicinity," which had appeared in " The Traveller " (1836 ; 3d ed., enlarged, 1837); "Lives of American Merchants" (2 vols., 1856-'7) ; and " Wealth and Worth, a Col- lection of Morals, Maxims, and Miscellanies for Merchants" (New York, 1858).

HUNT, Harriot Kezia, physician, b. in Bos- ton, Mass., in 1805 ; d. there, 2 Jan., 1875. She was a teacher in 1827, studied medicine under Dr. Valentine Mott in 1833, and opened an office in 1835, being probably the earliest female practi- tioner in the United States. In 1843 she founded in Charlestown, Mass., a ladies' physiological society, which had fifty members. She applied for admis- sion to the Harvard medical lectures in 1847, but was refused. In 1853 the Woman's medical college of Philadelphia conferred on her the degree of M. D. She was a noted lecturer on woman suffrage, sanitary reform, and other subjects. In paying taxes on her real estate she filed annually, for twenty-five years, a protest against taxation with- out representation. She published " Glances and Glimpses, or Fifty Years' Social, including Twenty Years' Professional Life " (Boston, 1856).

HUNT, Henry Jackson, soldier, b. in Detroit, Mich., 14 Sept., i819 ; d. in Washington, D. C, 11 Feb., 1889. His grandfather, Thomas, at the time of his death was colonel of the 1st in- fantry; and his fa- ther, Samuel W., lieu- tenant in the 3d in- fantry, died in Sep- tember, 1829. Henry accompanied his fa- ther on the expedi- tion that established Fort Leavenworth in 1827, and, after at- tending school in Mis- souri, entered the U. S. military academy, where he was gradu- ated in 1839. He served in the 2d artil-

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during the Canada border disturbances of that year, in garrisons at Fort Adams, R. I., and Fort Columbus and Fort Hamilton, N. Y., and on recruiting service till 18 June, 1846, when he was promoted to 1st lieutenant. During the Mexican war he was brevetted captain for gallantry at Contreras and Churubusco, and major at Chapultepec, and he was at Vera Cruz. Cerro Gordo, San Antonio, Molino del Rey, where he was twice wounded, and at the capture of the city of Mexico. He was then on frontier duty till the civil war, with the exception of service in 1856-'7 and 1858-'60 on a board to revise the system of light-artillery tactics. He had become captain, 28 Sept., 1852, was promoted to major, 14 May, 1861, and commanded the artillery on the extreme left in the battle of Bull Run. He