Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Hunter, Alvin C. 1873 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Alvin C. Hunter, proprietor of the Cash Meat Market, fancy groceries and
delicatessen, No. 217 East Douglas avenue, Wichita, Kan., is a native Kansan. He
was born on a farm in Delano township, Sedgwick county, on August 7, 1873. His
parents were Bazil W. and Thursey (Richcreek) Hunter, natives of Ohio and
Indiana, respectively, who came to Kansas in the '60s and took up a claim in
Delano township. They sold their farm in 1874 and moved to Wichita, where the
elder Hunter died soon after at the age of thirty-nine. His widow survived him
until April 8, 1906, when she died at the age of sixty-six. Alvin C. Hunter was
the youngest of a family of three children, two boys and one girl, all of whom
are living. Mr. Hunter was educated in the public schools of Wichita and began
work when still young in the slaughter house of J. L. Moore & Son, where, after
learning the butcher business, he began for himself in company with his brother,
V. J. Hunter, and opened a shop on the West Side four years later. After
conducting this market for two years they sold it out. Alvin C. Hunter then went
to Oklahoma and his-brother to Colorado. In Oklahoma Alvin C. took up a claim
and proved it up, when he sold it out and returned to Wichita, where he again
embarked in the butcher business, adding groceries, etc. On October 10, 1904, he
located at his present stand, and has since that time more than doubled his
stock to meet the increasing demands of his trade, and he now has one of the
leading places of its kind in the city. Mr. Hunter is a member of the fraternal
order of the Modern Woodmen of America and is also a member of the Christian
Church. He was married in 1894 to Miss Minta A. Anderson, of Mt. Hope, Kan. Of
this union one child has been born, Thursey Lenora Hunter.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from 

History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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