Biography of Joseph D. Hunstock, 1902, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames: Hunstock, Holmes, Cooper. ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access and not to be removed separately without written permission. ************************************************************************ Transcribed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: W. David Samuelsen - December 2001 ************************************************************************ An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902 by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 283 J. D. Hunstock The enterprising and progressive farmer and stock raiser whose career it is now our task to present in brief outline was born at East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on November 24, 1834, being the son of William Henry and Eliza W. (Holmes) Hunstock, natives of Hamburg, Germany, and Virginia, respectively. He received a common school education, then engaged in farming, an enterprise in which he continued to seek his livelihood until 1856, when he went to clerking. He busied himself in the line of activity until the outbreak of the Civil war, then enlisted in Company B, First Louisiana Regiment, John Scott's Cavalry, and participated in many hard-fought battles and campaigns, among them Murfreesborough, Chickamauga and Richmond. At the close of hostilities he again engaged in farming at Baton Rouge, but in 1869 he sold and came out to Baker City, Oregon, making the journey to Kelton, Utah, by train and the remainder by stage. For a year after his arrival he clerked in the store of his brother-in-law, A. H. Brown, and for the two years ensuing he worked in a quartz mill. In 1871 he purchased the place he now owns, but rented it for the first six years, he himself living upon and farming Mr. Brown's place. In 1879 he moved onto his own land, four miles west of the present Haines, where he has ever since lived, engaged in farming and stock raising. He is, as above intimated, an industrious, thrifty man and a good, progressive farmer. On March 11, 1884, at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Mr. Hunstock married Miss Mary, daughter of George and Caroline Cooper, and they have had four children, three of whom are still living, namely: Joseph D., Jr., Mable C. and Flavia G. Mrs. Hunstock's father was a relative of the Coopers of Revolutionary fame.