NJ HOUSE ASSEMBLY POLITICIAN SCHOOLEY’S MOUNTAIN MORRIS HUNT LETTER SIGNED 1896!

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HOLLOWAY WHITFIELD HUNT
(1840 – 1911)
STATE AND LOCAL POLITICIAN FROM SCHOOLEY’S MOUNTAIN, MORRIS COUNTY, NEW JERSEY,
DEMOCRATIC PARTY MEMBER OF THE NEW JERSEY HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY FOR THE 104
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LEGISLATURE 1878-1879
JUDGE – SPECIAL MASTER IN CHANCERY 1879-1911,
COMMISSIONERS OF APPEALS WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, MORRIS COUNTY, NJ 1866-1872,
SCHOOL COMMISSIONER and SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP NJ 1865-1870s
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HERE IS AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY HUNT ON HIS
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COUNSELOR-AT-LAW”
LETTERHEAD, 2pp., DATED AT SCHOOLEY’S MOUNTAIN, NJ, JUNE 24,
1896
T
O
OSCAR JEFFERY
(1838 – 1925)
FOUNDING FATHER and ORIGINAL INCORPORATOR OF THE BOROUGH OF WASHINGTON, WARREN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, NOTED LOCAL POLITICIAN, PROMINENT ATTORNEY, POSTMASTER OF WASHINGTON, NJ APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT, CHAIRMAN OF THE REPUBLICAN COUNTY COMMITTEE, Etc.
THE LETTER CONCERNS THE WHEREABOUTS OF PRESBYTERIAN CLERGYMAN, REVEREND JAMES H. CLARK.
HUNT SAYS THAT HE WAS PASTOR IN SCHOOLEY’S MOUNTAIN IN 1868, PASTOR OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AT YATES CITY, ILLINOIS IN THE YEAR 1892, BUT DOES NOT KNOW WHERE HE IS CURRENTLY, GIVING ADVICE TO JEFFREY RE HOW TO FIND HIM…
The document measures 8½” x 5½”and is in VF condition.
A FINE PIECE OF 19
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CENTURY NEW JERSEY POLITICAL HISTORY.
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POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE HONORABLE
HOLLOWAY WHITFIELD HUNT
IN THE 1880 NEW JERSEY LEGISLATIVE MANUAL
Holloway Whitfield Hunt (Democrat, Schooley’s Mountain.)
The Third Legislative-District comprises Chester, Mendham, Mount Olive, Passaic, Randolph, Roxbury and Washington.
Holloway W.
Hunt is a lawyer by profession, and was born at Schooleys Mountain, N.J., June 21st, 1840. His father and grandfather were both Presbyterian clergymen, and graduates of Princeton College. After completing his studies,
Hunt read law with Hon. Theodore Little, of Morristown, for a year, then entered the Law Department of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and graduated from there in 1862; finishing his legal studies with Hon. Joseph P. Bradley. He was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in 1863.
In the Winter of 1879 he was admitted as a counsellor-at-law by the Supreme Court, and appointed "Special Master" in Chancery by the Chancellor.
Hunt was Superintendent of Public Schools in Washington Township, Morris County, from the Spring of 1865 until the appointment of County Superintendent.
He was elected to the Legislature in 1878 by a majority of 609 over the Republican candidate. Last year he served on the Joint Committees on "Treasurer's Accounts" and "Lunatic Asylums." 1878—The district was differently composed. 1879—Hunt, D.,564; no opposition.
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Holloway W. Hunt is the only lawyer who has ever made his home in Washington.
Mr. Hunt resides at the "Springs," and is already known as a rising man in the profession. He has engaged actively in politics, and represented his district in the Legislature during the years 1878 and 1879.
His grandfather, Rev. H. W. Hunt, was the youngest of sixteen children, and was born in Westchester county, N. Y., in 1769. He was pastor of the churches of Newton and Sparta, and afterward for forty years of the churches of Bethel, Alexandria and Kingwood in Hunterdon County.
Of his four children the Rev. H. W. Hunt Jr. removed to Washington Township in 1826, where he married Amanda, daughter of Lawrence Hann, in 1827. Two of their children, Lawrence H. and Holloway W., now reside in the township.
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Holloway W Hunt
Birth
1840
Death
1911 (aged 70–71)
Burial
Union Cemetery
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Hackettstown, Warren County, New Jersey
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