Husband Robert P. Hunter, M.D. 1
Born: 23 Jan 1837 - Black Lick Twp, Indiana Co, PA 1
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Father: John M. Hunter (1807-1868) 1 2 3
Mother: Ann Reese Banks (1810-1875) 1 2 3
Marriage: 18 May 1875 4
Wife Rebecca Hill 4
Born: 30 Jun 1853 - Armstrong Co, PA 4
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Father: Daniel Hill ( -Bef 1914) 5
Mother: Eliza Kuhns ( - ) 5
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1 M John A. Hunter 4
Born: 18 Jun 1876 4
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Died: 27 May 1892 4
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
2 F Anna Lyda Hunter 3 4
Born: 10 Jan 1878 4
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Died: 2 Nov 1897 4
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3 M Robert K. Hunter 4
Born: 19 Oct 1879 4
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4 F Marion D. Hunter 4
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General Notes: Husband - Robert P. Hunter, M.D.
He attended the schools of the locality in which he was reared, and in his young manhood taught school for five years during the winter terms. For two years he was employed on the Pennsylvania canal under his father. In 1862 he began the study of medicine with his uncle, Dr. M. R. Banks, of Livermore, PA, and in 1864 began to attend lectures at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. He began practice before finishing his course, on May 9, 1865, opening an office at Leechburg, where he practiced four years before he was able to complete his studies. He had devoted all his surplus to the furtherance of his preparation for practice and finished the full course at Jefferson Medical College, graduating with high standing March 13, 1869. He was located at Leechburg thereafter, and was highly successful in his professional work, winning and retaining the confidence of a large patronage.
His interests were very diversified. He was among the first-in 1878-to bring shorthorn cattle to Armstrong County, giving the farmers the benefit of improved stock. He was long an ardent Prohibitionist, and on June 29, 1882, was made president of the Armstrong County Prohibitory Amendment Association, a temperance organization which met in Kittanning on that date. In 1873, he was one of the organizers of the Leechburg Bank, and served as one of its directors until 1880. For two terms he served as chief burgess of Leechburg, and in 1911 he was elected to represent his district in the State Legislature; he served on the committees on Congressional Apportionment, Counties and Townships, Railroads, Ways and Means, Educational, Retrenchment and Reform. For twenty years he was a member of the Leechburg school board, during most of that period being president, and it was during his incumbency that a fine high school was erected. Dr. Hunter was one of the organizers of the Apollo pension board and became its first president. He also served as a trustee of the Soldiers and Sailors' Home at Erie, Pennsylvania.
On Dec. 29, 1875, the Doctor received a commission from Governor Hartranft as surgeon in chief on Gen. Harry White's staff, 9th Division, National Guard of Pennsylvania, and served in that capacity during the Pittsburgh railroad and labor riots.
Dr. Hunter was a leading member of the Presbyterian Church at Leechburg, of which he was an elder many years. He served a long period as superintendent of the Sunday school. In 1887, he was a delegate from the Kittanning Presbytery to the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church which met in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1863, he was made a Mason in Loyalhanna lodge. No. 275, F. & A. M., of Latrobe, and held membership in Leechburg Lodge, No. 577, of which he was a past master; he was also a member of Orient Chapter, R. A. M., at Kittanning.