HUNT, Randell, M. D., Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000



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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and
Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 212-213.  Edited by Alcée
Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.

Hunt, Randell, M. D., of Shreveport, was born in this city, Nov. 20, 1865, and
is a son of Theodore Gaillard and Cornelia Virginia (Nicholson) Hunt.  His
father was a native of South Carolina and his mother of Mississippi.  The name
Hunt is of English origin and of prominence in the annals of Louisiana.  The
great-great-grandfather of Dr. Hunt, Richard Hunt, was born in Kent, England,
and his wife was a niece of the Duke of Manchester, who settled upon her a
dowry when she was married.  Her maiden name was Sarah Grimshaw.  Richard Hunt
was made governor of the Bermuda Islands, and his son Robert subsequently
became also governor of the Bahama Islands, and Queen's Counsel at Nassau, and
still later came to the United States and located in South Carolina where he
married into the well-known Huguenot family--Gaillard.  His descendants have
been prominent in the history of the southern states.  He was the father of
Theodore Gaillard, Randell, Thomas, William H., and Copeland Hunt.  Theodore
Gaillard Hunt removed from South Carolina to New Orleans prior to the Mexican
war in which he served as lieutenant-colonel.  He was a lawyer by profession
and served as district-attorney at New Orleans and later as attorney-general
of Louisiana.  For 14 years he was judge of the criminal courts of New Orleans
and subsequently elected to congress, where he participated in many of the
vital issues including that of the Missouri compromise.  He served with
distinction in the Confederate army as colonel of the 5th La. reg., known as
"Tigers."  He died in New Orleans at the age of 89 years.  His wife, Cornelia
Virginia Nicholson, was a daughter of a distinguished Mississippi jurist.  Dr.
Randell Hunt is the only child of his parents and was reared in the cities of
New Orleans and Shreveport. After becoming a sophomore in the Louisiana State
university he entered the Medical Department of Tulane university, graduating
therefrom in 1889.  Immediately after, he took up the practice of his
profession at Shreveport.  He is a member of the Charity Hospital Alumni
association; was for 8 years chief surgeon at the State hospital, Shreveport,
in which city he was a member of the board of health and of the parish school
board for a number of years.  Dr. Hunt is a 1st lieutenant in the medical
reserve corps, United States Army.  He is a member of the Shreveport City,
Louisiana State and the American Medical association.  He has taken
post-graduate work in London and is one of the ablest operating surgeons in
the South, and has won distinction in this line.  In New Orleans Dr. Hunt
married Miss Emily Halsey, daughter of Maj. Halsey, and unto the marriage the
issue has been 4 children.  Mrs. Hunt for several years has been prominent in
social and club life. She is a colonial dame and has taken an active part in
civic improvements, in the cause of temperance, and has been a fine factor in
many movements which have tended for the moral uplift in the city of
Shreveport.  She is an accomplished and cultured lady, and held in highest
esteem.