BIO: John Andrew HUNTER, Centre County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania: Including 
the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion: Containing 
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Etc. 
Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1898.
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  JOHN ANDREW HUNTER, B.S. and M.E., instructor in mechanical 
engineering at Pennsylvania State College, is rapidly winning 
distinction as an able and successful educator. To judge of his future 
by his past, we may well believe that his steady purpose will carry him 
forward to increased effectiveness and wider influence.
  Mr. Hunter is a native of Half Moon Valley, Centre county, having 
first seen the light at Stormstown, May 15, 1868. His father, John A. 
Hunter, Sr., a native of Pine Grove, has been for many years a 
prominent agriculturist at Stormstown, and he and his wife, Elizabeth 
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der, are among the most highly esteemed residents of that vicinity.
  Prof. Hunter enjoyed in boyhood the benefits of wholesome country 
life, and in 1884 he left the old farm to enter the preparatory 
department of State College. In 1890 he completed the course in 
mechanical engineering, graduating with the degree of B.S. In the same 
year he began his professional career as an instructor in Mechanic Arts 
at Macon. Ga., and soon after was appointed principal of Parson's 
Technological School at Savannah, Ga., where he remained until 1893. He 
then returned to his Alma Mater for a post-graduate course in 
mechanical and electrical engineering, gaining the degree of M.E. In 
1894 he assumed the duties of his present position, for which his 
abilities and training have admirably fitted him.
  Prof. Hunter is a member of the Scientific Association of State 
College, and, while thoroughly devoted to his chosen line of study, he 
takes an intelligent interest in all questions of the time. In his 
political views he is a Democrat. So far Prof. Hunter has not joined 
the ranks of the happy benedicts.