Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Hunter, Samuel 1832 

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SAMUEL HUNTER, one of those who have achieved a competency in life by his own
efforts and who is one of Unity township’s reliable farmers and useful citizens,
is a son of Ralph and Rebecca (Anderson) Hunter and was born in Unity township,
Westmoreland county. Pa., in 1832. Ralph Hunter was born and reared in
Westmoreland county until his death, which occurred in 1862, aged seventy years,
He was an honest, peaceable and hard-working man. He was a whig in politics and
an humble but earnest and useful member of the Presbyterian church. Whatever he
undertook he went through with in a satisfactory manner to all concerned and
never slighted any work entrusted to him. He married Rebecca Anderson October
10, 1805, who was a Presbyterian and died in 1858, aged seventy years. They
had eleven children, six sons and five daughters: Thomas Q., William, James,
Ralph, Samuel, Margaret, Jane, Elizabeth, Margaret the second and Rebecca.

   Samuel Hunter was reared to honest labor on the farm and trained to habits of
industry and economy. He attended the common schools of his native township in
which he received an ordinary business education. At an early age he engaged in
farming which he has followed ever since. He has prospered well in all of his
farming operations and now owns a farm of two hundred acres of land, on which he
has erected very good buildings and many important and valuable improvements. In
addition to farming he ran a grain-threshing machine for fourteen years. He also
engaged in stock-raising and gives to that business the same assiduous care and
attention which he bestows upon farming. He is an enthusiastic republican,
attends many of the meetings and conventions of his party and always votes for
its nominees. He has acquired all of his means by honest, hard labor and not by
speculation and is very comfortably situated to enjoy life, His farm is located
two miles north of Pleasant Unity, He is unmarried and his two sisters,
Elizabeth and Margaret, reside with him and keep house for him.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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