Ashland County OhArchives Biographies.....David Hunter July 14 1854 - 
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Author: History of Ashland county, Ohio by A. J. Baughman

David Hunter, who is meeting with success as a general farmer and stock dealer, is
also 
well known in financial and industrial circles of Perrysville as a stockholder in
several 
large and important concerns which are proving factors in the business activity and

progress of the city. A native of Green township, Ashland County, Ohio he was born
on a 
farm a mile and a half from Loudonville on the 14th of July, 1854, a son of John and
Mary 
(Dowell) Hunter, natives of Ireland and Holmes Coutny, Ohio respectively. The father

came to America in early boyhood with his parents who died soon after their arrival
in 
this country. He was reared by his older sisters in Green township, Ashland county,

where he eventually married and made his home until his demise. He engaged in 
farming as a life work and became very successful as an agriculturist, owning at the
time 
of his death seven hundred and fifty acres of farm land, most of which was situated
in 
Green townshiip, Ashland county. John Hunter and his wife were the parents of seven

children, namely: John, a resident of Green township; David, of this review; Amos, 
residing in Richland county, Lewis, living in Green township; Reuben; Mary; and
Jane, 
the widow of John Rowe, of Perrysville.
Reared under the parental roof, David Hunter spent his boyhood days upon his
father's 
farm, assisting in the general work of the farm and at the same time acquiring
valuable 
knowledge of the methods of tilling the soil that should serve as a good foundation
for his 
subsequent success in this line of business activity. After his marriage, however,
he 
purchased one hundred and forty-seven acres of land from his father adjoining the 
corporation limits of Perrysville on the east, which place he has since continued to
make 
his home. He is also the owner of eighty acres of farm land adjoining the
corporation 
limits of Perysville on the west, making a totoal of two hundred and twenty-seven
acres. 
Aside from general farming pursuits, during the past ten years Mr. Hunter has
devoted 
much time and attention to the buying and shipping of stock of all kinds, and in all
of his 
undertakings he has been eminently successful. As he has prospered he has extended 
his interests into other directions and today is a director and stockholder in the
Perrysville 
Banking Company, a company composed of five members with a capital of twenty-five 
thousand dollars, Mr. Hunter owning a fifith of the stock. He is likewise a
stockholder in 
the Perrysville Pottery Company and of the Roofing Tile Company, and his connection

with these concerns has brought him into importnat relations with the financial and

industrial interests of the city and placed him among the representative and
influential 
citizens of the community.
The year 1877 witnessed the marriage of Mr. Hunter and Miss Susan Boney, a native of

Mercer County, Pennsylvania, whose birth occurred in September, 1855. She came to 
Ohio in early chilldhood in company with her parents, Levi and Lydia Boney, both
natives 
of Pennsylvania. In the family of Mr. and Mrs. Hunter are five sons:  Edward, a
resident of 
Perrysville, who is active in the capacity of engineer at the Perrysville Pottery
Company's 
plant; John, of Freedom, Pennsylvania, and engineer on the Pennsylvania Railroad; 
Burton, a farmer of Green township; Floyd, and Ernest, both still at home. Having
spent 
his entire life in this county, Mr. Hunter has formed a wide acquaintance here and
many 
of his warmest friends are those who have known him from his boyhood days, while in

business circles he has won an envious position, not only because of the success
which 
is his but because of the honorable and upright methods he has at all times
employed.


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