Los Angeles-Statewide County CA Archives Biographies.....Hunt, Rockwell Dennis February 3, 1868 - 
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Source: California and Californians, Vol. IV, Published 1932, Pages  86 - 87
Author: The Lewis Publishing Company

     ROCKWELL DENNIS HUNT, author, dean of the graduate school of the 
University of Southern California, is a native Californian, born at 
Sacramento, February 3, 1868, and is of English ancestry. His father, Dennis 
Rockwell Hunt, was born in Vermont, came to California in 1850, and in 1855 
married Nancy Zumwalt Cotton, who was born in Indiana and came to California 
in a covered wagon. Her first husband, Alexander Cotton, died en route while 
crossing the Sierra Nevada Mountains. By her marriage to Dennis Rockwell Hunt 
there were five sons: Major C., Frank L., Mark T., Rockwell D. and George G.

     Rockwell D. Hunt attended public schools in Sacramento County and in 
Napa, completing the work of the commercial department of the Napa College in 
1887 and graduated Bachelor of Philosophy in 1890 and Master of Arts in 1892. 
He was professor of history in Napa College from 1891 to 1893 and for forty 
years has been an interested student of Pacific Coast history and the economic 
and commercial relations of the Pacific region. He graduated in 1892 from the 
California School of Elocution and Oratory at San Francisco. His Doctor of 
Philosophy degree came from Johns Hopkins University in 1895, his chief 
teacher being Herbert Baxter Adams. The doctorate was awarded for studies in 
history and economics.

     Doctor Hunt was professor of history and economics at the University of 
the Pacific from 1895 to 1902. He was principal of the San Jose High School 
from 1902 to 1908. He has been a member of the faculty of the University of 
Southern California at Los Angeles since 1908, at first as professor of 
economics and sociology, later as dean of the College of Commerce and Business 
Administration, and now as dean of the graduate school and professor of 
economics. He has lectured at Stanford University and the University of 
California and is author of Genesis of California's First Constitution, 
California the Golden, California an American Commonwealth, co-author of Ox-
cart to Airplane, and his name has appeared tinder titles to many articles on 
historical and economic subjects in magazines. He has served as a governor of 
the Los Angeles Museum, is a member of the American Historical Association, 
American Economic Association, for eight years was president of the Historical 
Society of Southern California, is a fellow of the American Geographic 
Society, is founder and fellow of the Pacific Geographic Society and a member 
of the American Oriental Society. He employed his sabbatical leave during 1926-
27 for a trip around the world, during which he visited many educational 
institutions and continued his study of world problems by direct contact.

     Doctor Hunt is a member of the Pi Gamma Mu, was president in 1927-28 of 
the Southern California chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, is a member of the Beta 
Gamma Sigma, Phi Delta Kappa, the Skull and Dagger Society and the Phi Beta 
Kappa. He belongs to the City Club and Municipal League of Los Angeles, the X 
Club, and is a Methodist and Republican.

     He married, July 24, 1895, Nancy Seavy Stuart, also a native of 
California. Her father, Daniel F. Stuart, was a pioneer farmer and orchardist 
of California. Doctor and Mrs. Hunt had four children: Paul Adams, born in 
1896, married Imogen Walker, and has two daughters; Lloyd Freeman, born in 
1897, married Dorothy Burnett; Rockwell Dennis, Jr., born in 1901 and died in 
1913; and Clarence Stuart, born in 1904. All three of the living sons are 
graduates of the University of Southern California, Paul being at present an 
instructor in physical education. Lloyd an electrical engineer, and Clarence 
an attorney.

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