Byron Edgerton Hunt

Byron Edgerton Hunt - The subject of this sketch was born in Walworth County, Wisconsin, December 24,1839, and is the son of Charles E. and Minerva Middick Hunt. He resided there until he was fifteen years old, receiving his primary education at the public schools, and afterward attended the Hillsdale College of Michigan for two years. He then began teaching school, which he followed until 1861. In the above year, he came to California and located in Butte County, where he taught school until 1867, and in the same year graduated from the State Normal School, standing number two of a class of eight graduates. After this he continued teaching, and in 1878, took charge of the Marysville High School, as principal, which position he resigned in 1880. November 18th of the latter year he was admitted to practice law before the Superior Court of Napa County, and is now one of the practicing lawyers of this city. He was married June 1, 1873, to Miss Martha C. Gesford, a native of McHenry County, Illinois, born March 9, 1845, and by this union they have two children: Lulu F., born September 7,1877, and Maud G., born December 15,1880.

History of Napa and Lake Counties,: San Francisco, Cal.: Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers, 1881
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, June 2007 Pages 489-490

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