Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Hunt, John J 1832 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bios Album, 1890

JOHN J. HUNT. The Nation in which we take such just pride is indebted to the 
lands across the sea for many of her most reliable citizens and enterprising 
workers in various lines of life. Among this class is numbered the gentleman 
above named, who owns and occupies a fine estate in Joliet Township, not far 
from the city limits. It comprises two hundred and fifty-four and a half 
acres, four and a half acres on section 22, fifty acres on section 23, and two 
hundred acres on section 1, Manhattan Township, which is marked with the 
improvements usually made by a man of enterprise, but which are above the 
average in their durability and design. Mr. Hunt has spent the greater part of 
his life in the pursuit of agriculture, connecting stock-raising with the 
tilling of the soil to a considerable extent. In Somersetshire, England, 
November 7, 1832, the eyes of our subject opened to the light, and in the 
mother country he remained until the age of eighteen years. He then crossed 
the briny deep for the land which had attracted him by its promise of a 
broader field for the energy which he felt, and after landing on the Eastern 
coast he came to the Prairie State, making his entrance into Joliet July 17, 
1851. He found employment on a farm on Hickory Creek, where he worked by the 
month about seven years, after which, with his brother Mark, he rented the 
same estate for about four years. His next enterprise was the rental of a farm 
belonging to William Ferguson, for a twelvemonth, the following three years 
being spent as a renter on an estate belonging to William Hughes. While living 
upon the Hughes estate Mr. Hunt took a companion in life in the person of Miss 
Olive J. Wheeler, the marriage ceremony taking place May 7, 1861. Mrs. Hunt 
was born in Vermont, June 23, 1839, and exemplifies in her person the 
housewifely ability and unbounded energy of the Yankee character. Her parents, 
David N. and Lydia (Stanley) Wheeler, are also natives of the Green Mountain 
State, whence they came to Illinois early in the '50s. They made a permanent 
settlement in Frankfort Township, where they are still living. Their family 
consists of five sons and five daughters, Mrs. Hunt being the eldest. For 
nearly two years after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hunt resided upon the 
Hughes farm, after which they bought an estate in Manhattan Township, and 
removing there made it their home thirteen years. Having bought the present 
estate and erected upon it a most excellent dwelling, they removed here on 
March 26, 1876, with the intention of making this their permanent home. They 
are the parents of four children, their daughter, Edna E., who is the youngest 
child, being the only one who remains with them. Joseph C. married Cora Jane 
Mapps, and lives in Joliet; Cora E. is the wife of John C. Love; John W. is 
now in the employ of the Michigan Central Railroad. Mr. Hunt exercises the 
right of suffrage in support of the principles and candidates of the 
Republican party. Mrs. Hunt is a member of the First Baptist Church of Joliet. 
Among their associates they have many friends, and by all to whom they are 
known they are classed among the most respectable and intelligent members of 
the community. The parents of Mr. Hunt were Joseph and Charlotte (Green) Hunt, 
both natives of the mother country, who died in Somersetshire. They had three 
sons and three daughters, he of whom we write being the second member of the 
family circle. 

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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