William C. Hunter and Marguerite Wilder

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Husband William C. Hunter ¹

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           Born: 25 Dec 1856 - West Mead Twp, Crawford Co, PA 1
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         Father: Andrew Jackson Hunter (1815-1907) 2 3
         Mother: Sarah "Sallie" Pardee (1822-1889) 2 4

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Wife Marguerite Wilder ¹

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         Father: Sylvester Wilder (      -      ) 1
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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - William C. Hunter

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He was born on the old Hunter homestead in West Mead township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. His education was acquired in the public county school in the vicinity of his home. After leaving the farm in his eighteenth year, he spent five years in the oil fields. He abandoned that line of industry and engaged in commercial traveling life, 1874, carrying a shoe line, and continued steadily at it for over thirty years. He started in with Parks, Hazard & Craig, of Jamestown, New York, remained for twelve years. He was with Sterns & Packard, of Boston, eight years; with the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company, of St. Louis, for the next twelve years. His record showed he had sold over $5,000,000.00 worth of goods. His territory consisted of the northwestern part of Pennsylvania and southwestern New York.
Mr. Hunter became possessor of the old Hunter homestead, in 1910, the scene of his boyhood days of pleasure and hard work. He immediately set to work building and remodeling the old homestead house, built over eighty years previous, making out of it one of the most complete old fashioned, model country homes possibly in the state of Pennsylvania. He was very successful in preserving the old relics of the place and had the old timber cabin remodeled in such a manner that the original idea was kept intact as much as possible and its outward appearance very much up-to-date, while the interior was left the same as it was built. Three old wood fire-places, old relics of furniture, rope cord beds and lounges, rocking chairs, spinning wheels, and such like, bearing dates from seventy-five to one hundred and sixty years old. The surrounding lands of the homestead were cultivated and fixed in such manner as to completely harmonize with the homestead. Three fish ponds were constructed so that one could fish from the back porch from each three ponds, each well stocked with fine brook trout, bass and pickerel. The entire place was surrounded with eight feet of unclimbable fence and deer were turned loose to browse and roam at their sweet will and leisure. Mr. Hunter had a beautiful winter home at 777 Park avenue, Meadville, Pennsylvania. Mr. Hunter's love for simple home life largely barred him from lodge and lodge societies, however, he was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and had several protective associations policies. His early political affiliations were with the Republican party, which he strictly adhered to through his life.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1595.

2 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 899.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1594, 1718.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1718.