Davidson County TN Archives Biographies.....Hunt, William Fox 1867 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@gmail.com October 26, 2005, 2:54 pm Author: Will T. Hale WILLIAM FOX HUNT, for twenty-five years an active business man of Nashville and now clerk of the county court of Davidson county, was born in the city of Nashville July 28, 1867. His father was Samuel Hunt, who also was a successful business man of Nashville for a score of years. The latter was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1829 and died in Nashville in 1885. He was a youth about sixteen years of age when he accompanied his parents to Kentucky, in which state he grew to manhood and was married to Margaret A. Surber, a member of one of the oldest and most highly respected families of that state. She yet survives him and is now (1912) seventy-six years of age. During the Civil war he served under the command of the redoubtable Gen. John Hunt Morgan as a captain in Morgan's cavalry. Prior to the Civil war he was a coal mine operator in Kentucky but after the close of that great struggle he removed to Nashville, Tennessee, where from 1865 until his death in 3885 he was engaged in the produce business. His father, whose Christian name also was Samuel, was born in Liverpool, England, and came of English ancestry. The wife of Samuel Hunt, Sr., bore as a maiden the good old Irish name of Murphy and was born of Irish lineage in Queenstown, Ireland. On immigrating to this country they located first in Maryland, but about 1846 they removed to Somerset, Kentucky, where they thereafter resided until their deaths. William F. Hunt grew up in Nashville and obtained his education in the public schools of this city. He took up business responsibilities early as a newsboy and at the age of fourteen he was operating a rock and stone quarry. In 1885 he became the successor of his father in the produce business at the death of the latter and organized the Hunt Produce Company, continuing to be engaged in that line of business actively twenty-five years. At the end of that period he sold his interests and assumed instead the duties of clerk of the county court of Davidson county, to which office he was elected in 1910 and in which he is giving the most efficient order of service. In political adherency he is a Democrat. His religious belief is that of the Episcopal church, with which he is identified as a communicant and as a regular attendant of Christ's Episcopal church at Nashville. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic order as a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, as a Knight Templar in the York Kites, and he is Chief Rabban of Almenah Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Nashville. He is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His interest in promoting the industrial and commercial growth of Nashville !is evinced by his membership in the Board of Trade, the Nashville Commercial Club and the Young Men's Business Association, and social benefits and pleasures are derived as a member of the Noelton Golf Club and the Country Club. In 1891 Mr. Hunt was happily married to Miss Mary A. Parrish, of Nashville, Tennessee To their union have been born four children, named: Clarence Martin, Julian Roach, William Nichol and Lee Hager Hunt. Additional Comments: From: A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities by Will T. Hale Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1913 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/davidson/bios/hunt205nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/tnfiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb