J.G. Hunter  Biography  Hancock County, WV

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Submitted by Dale Patterson <Norton750@aol.com>

Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the 
Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia".  
Compiled and Written by:
J.H. Newton,  G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle
Published by:
J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA.

                Biographical Sketches of Hancock County:

J. G. Hunter:
    blacksmith, Fairview, was born March 21, 1844, in Washington County, 
Pennsylvania.  Came with his grandmother to Fairview when very young.  At an 
early age he apprenticed to learn the blacksmith trade with J. W. Allison 
and remained in his employ about ten years.  Married Miss Adaline Scott, 
(nee) Allison, in 1868.  They have a family of eight children.  In 1872 he 
erected a shop 40x40 feet and started his own account.  They are members of 
the Presbyterian Church, Fairview.