Greenbrier County, West Virginia Biography of HENRY F. HUNTER This biography was submitted by Sandy Spradling, E-mail address: This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 112-115 HENRY F. HUNTER. Henry F. Hunter, vice-president of the Bank of Greenbrier, is one of the self-made men of the county. He received his education in the common schools, completing his course of studies by graduating from the Greenbrier Military Institute of Lewisburg in 1892, the same year his wife graduated from the Lewisburg Seminary. After leaving the military institute, he accepted a minor position in the Bank of Greenbrier and from that time rose gradually to the prominent position he now holds. He was made cashier in 1907, and vice-president January 3, 1916, holding both of these positions at the present time. The following is a meager record of the Hunter family of Greenbrier. John Anderson and wife, who was Elizabeth Tinpin Davis, were married on January 7, 1761, in St. Maryland. They first took up their residence in a place called the Narrows, on Anthony's creek, where they remained only a short time. Moving to a place on Greenbrier river, near the junction of Howard's creek, which land was granted to said Anderson for services rendered in the Revolutionary army, in which war he bore the title of captain. He built at this place a stone house, with walls of sufficient strength and thickness to withstand an assault of the Indians, who were still a foe to guard against. In the yard in front of this place is an Indian mound, which had never been opened, unless it has been done since the place was sold to C. F. Moore, trustee, March 1, 1899, by Carter B. Hunter, great grandson of John Anderson. Here he spent the remaining years of his life, dying in 1817, his wife preceding him in 1811. On March 17, 1813, he married Elizabeth Walkup, the sister of Mrs. John McElhenney, he having met her in the Manse at Lewisburg; being a frequent and honored guest in that home. (See Miss Rose Fry's Book on Dr. McElhenney). There were no children to this marriage. He served as sheriff of Greenbrier county in the year 1789, having his appointment from the Governor. By his first marriage there were born the following, namely: Rebecca, Sarah, Margaret Brown, and Elizabeth Gratton (born September 11, 1778), Rebecca died in infancy; Sarah married Colonel Ward and moved to Ohio; Margaret married James Ried, December 25, 1790. These are the grandmother and grandfather of Jonathan Mays. John Anderson deeded him lands, part of which is the John Davis Arbuckle place, where they made their home. Elizabeth Gratton Anderson married Henry B. Hunter on January 31, 1810. He was a native of Augusta county and in direct line of Surgeon John Hunter. (See book, Biographcal Dictionary, by Rev. J. L. Blake, D. D., as to his record.) John Anderson gave them as their portion the land on Greenbrier river, where they lived and reared their family. This land, at the death of Mrs. Hunter, went to John A. and Henry Fielding Hunter. The children were, namely: Rebecca Dent, who died in her thirteenth year; Eliza S. Turpin, who married Alexander W. Davis on April 25, 1833; John Anderson, first, who died in infancy; John Anderson, second, and Henry Fielding Hunter, born February 19, 1821. John Anderson Hunter was born April 15, i8i8. He received his elementary education under Dr. McElhenney in the academy at Lewisburg, took his degree at Washington College (now Washington and Lee University). He returned home and read medicine with Dr. Moorman for three years. He then entered the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with high distinction. Returning from college, he took up the practice of medicine at Blue Sulphur Springs, the then famous summer resort. After several years' practice he came to Lewisburg, where he lived and reared his family. When his native State called her sons to sustain her rights and to rally to the defense of the great principles of true constitutional liherty, he at once offered his services, going out with Capt. Robert F. Dennis, in the twenty-seventh Virginia regiment, as surgeon, and so distinguished were his services in the regiment that he was made medical director of the army. In the long list of distinguished surgeons in the Confederate army none contributed more unweariedly to improve and complete the system of medical and hospital discipline inaugurated by the surgeon-general, a system which for order and symmetry and judicious arrangement has no parallel in the annals of war. John A. Hunter married Rebecca Agnes Dickson, January 3, 1859, the daughter of Robert and Sarah Renick Dickson, and was born and reared at Locust Hill, near White Sulphur Springs, which is now owned by the children of her deceased brother, Henry Frazier Dickson. Mrs. Hunter died April 24, 1917, at Lewisburg, John A. Hunter having died on April 17, 1873. To this union were born Sarah Renick, wife of Henderson Bell, Jr., and died March, 1897; Copeland Hunter; Elizabeth Gratton, married R. W. Cabell, who died in November, 1913, and married to A. D. Guthrie, December 23, 1915; lives in Kanawha county; Henry F. Hunter married Mary Thressa Stratton (daughter of James H. Stratton and Anna Nelson Handley-see Book of Strotois,Vols. i and 2, Hattie G. Stratton, Tennessee) on November 19, 1896. To this union were born Rebekab Nelson Hunter, James Stratton Hunter, and Marion Gratton Utunter, who died in infancy.