Henry R. Hunter Biography

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HUNTER, HENRY R., was born in Delaware county, N. Y., November 19, 1840.  He was 
reared on a farm, and attended the public schools until sixteen years old, when 
he was employed about the hotel business in which his father then engaged.  
During the last year of the civil war he was connected with the quartermaster's 
department of the Third Division of the Seventeenth Corps.  After the war he 
engaged in the hotel business in Wisconsin and Iowa until he removed to this 
county, arriving in Sioux Falls on the 17th day of May, 1870.  His father, who 
took up a quarter section in section twenty-eight in Sioux Falls township, died 
in 1881, and the subject of this sketch lived on this place until 1894, when he 
removed to Minnesota.  In March, 1899, he returned to Sioux Falls, where he now 
resides.  During his first term of residence in Sioux Falls he engaged in 
farming, and in the livery and real estate business, was in the early seventies 
a newspaper correspondent, and held several township offices.  He is a good 
citizen, and has a wide circle of friends.