Madison County ID Archives Biographies.....Hunt, Ralph Stephen 1869 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1920)

HON. RALPH STEPHEN HUNT, president of the Rexburg State Bank, representative in
the Idaho general assembly from Madison county and a prominent farmer and live
stock dealer residing at Rexburg, has made his home in Idaho since 1894, when he
came to this state from Weber, Utah. Since the year 1900 he has lived in Madison
county, spending most of the time upon his ranch. He was born in Weber, Utah,
July 20, 1869, being the elder of the two sons of Ralph H. and Sarah (Skelton)
Hunt, who are natives of New York and Pennsylvania respectively. They came to
Idaho from Utah in 1900 and make their home at Rexburg, where the father is a
retired farmer. In early manhood he followed the occupation of carpentering. His
family numbered eight children, two sons and six daughters, of whom Ralph S. is
the eldest. The only other son, John J. Hunt, died of influenza in October,
1918, at the age of thirty-six years.

   The two brothers were associated in the conduct of large farming and live
stock interests in Madison county, owning the largest irrigated farm in the
district. They were also extensively and successfully engaged in wool growing,
the flock of sheep now numbering about six thousand ewes.

   Mr. Hunt belongs to one of the old families identified with the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was reared upon a farm at Weber, Utah, and
since 1894 has lived continuously in southern or southeastern Idaho, taking up
his abode in what is now Madison county nineteen years ago. He is president of
the Rexburg State Bank, being one of its organizers and its second president,
and in addition to the duties of that position he devotes considerable attention
to his hay ranch and to the management of his large stock-raising interests,
being regarded as one of the foremost factors in connection with the sheep
industry in the state. During the first twenty years which he spent in Idaho he
rode the range and herded both cattle and sheep. This gave him valuable
knowledge and experience along the line to which he now gives his attention and
with the passing years his success has steadily grown until he is now a
prominent figure in connection with wool production in the northwest. He is a
member of the Idaho Wool Growers Association and also of the National Wool
Growers Association.

   Mr. Hunt has always been a republican and more or less prominent in political
circles. He served out an unexpired term as county commissioner and for five
years was a member of the city council of Rexburg. In 1912 he was elected to
represent his district in the lower house of the Idaho legislature, was again
called to that position in 1916 and for a third term in 1918. He was not a
candidate, however, in 1914. He is now chairman of the live stock committee and
is serving on other important committees. Fraternally he is connected with the
Odd Fellows and he finds his recreation in hunting and fishing. Throughout his
entire life he has been actuated by a spirit of progress which is as manifest in
his public career as in the conduct of his private business affairs.


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