MAJ. JAMES W. HUNTER, Lawrenceburgh, was the son of Robert and Letitia (WALKER) HUNTER, and was born in Harrisburg, Penn., December 16, 1796. When a small boy his parents moved to Wellsburg, Va., near Wheeling, where they lived and died. ON a visit to Steubenville, Ohio, during a revival of religion in the Methodist Episcopal Church, in that city, James HUNTER became acquainted with Miss Harriet PROTZMAN to whom he was afterward married, August 31, 1815, Thomas Shaw having married Sophia PROTZMAN, a sister of Harriet; HUNTER and Shaw concluded to start out into the world together. They constructed a flat-boat and gathered together their little stock of house-hold goods, loaded them on the boat at Steubenville, and with the two young brides and their mother they launched their boat upon the waters of life and the beautiful Ohio, and floated down the stream until they came to Cincinnati. Here they landed, but remained but a short time, when they started out into the country to seek a home. They stopped at Brookville, Ind., and after remaining there but a few months came to Lawrenceburgh, some time in the year 1817, where they each located, lived, raised a family and died within a year or two of each other, honored and respected by all who knew them. James Hunter was a carpenter by trade, and though he was a skilled draftsman and an architect of reputation in the community where he lived, he gave up his trade in early life and sought other channels in which he was enabled to secure a competency, and leave his family in comfortable circumstances. During the latter part of John Quincy Adams' administration, and after the election of Gen Jackson to the Presidency, Judge Isaac Dunn, who was then postmaster at Lawrenceburgh, appointed Maj. HUNTER his deputy, and on Jackson's inauguration to the Presidency Maj. HUNTER, who had been a warm supporter of Gen. Jackson, was appointed postmaster, a position he held until his death, September 14, 1835, and which was continued by his widow until the close of Gen. Jackson's last administration. During the period he was postmaster he was also mail agent of this section of the country, and his house was the headquarters of the mail lines and the stage coaches for southeastern Indiana. He was a man of an affable and genial nature, and exceedingly popular, though he never held any State office other than justice of the peace. During the latter part of his life, when his health had been impaired by disease, he accepted the office of magistrate, which he also held until his death. He had a great fondness for military tactics, and for many years made it a study, and when the organization of the militia of the State was in force, during the vigorous part of his life, he was an active participant in all of its drills, encampments and displays, and was the leading spirit in its movements in southern Indiana. On the 12th day of December, 1825, he was commissioned a major of the Fifty-fifth Regiment of Militia of the State of Indiana by James B. Ray, then governor of the State, a position he held until his resignation July 2, 1831. He died in the prime of life, only thirty-eight years of age, leaving a widow and six children, five of whom lived to mature age, honored and respected; the youngest died in infancy. Isaac W. HUNTER, the eldest, who died in Lawrenceburgh, in 1861, was a business man, and at one time was sheriff of Marion County; and he also represented that county in the State Legislature. Dr. Lazarus N. HUNTER, who died in Texas in 1860, was a prominent and successful physician of Missouri; Dr. William D.H. HUNTER, whose biography can be found in this work, has attained to considerable distinction. James J HUNTER was a farmer well and favorably known in Dearborn County, where he lived and died, and Mrs. Harriet J. O'BRIEN, the only daughter, widow of the HON. Cornelius O'BRIEN, is still living in Lawrenceburgh, highly esteemed by her many friends. The widow, now Mrs. Isaac Dunn, is also living, nearly the last of the noble pioneers that have given character to the community in which they have spent their eventful lives, and in the future will be kindly remembered by coming generations. No man has ever lived in Lawrenceburgh who left a better name or whose character shone out more brightly in its influence on society than his. He lived and died a noble Christian man, and the few that now remember him, speak of him as man perfect in life, and call him to mind with none but pleasing recollections. Ex-Gov. Albert G. Porter, of Indiana, in writing to Mr. F.E. Weakly, in regard to a notice of the death of Maj. HUNTER, in a letter dated October 17, 1885, says: " I have not been able to find any other notice of Maj. HUNTER in the Palladium. I am surprised, as Maj. HUNTER, at the time of his death, was postmaster, and had long been one of the most prominent, useful and estimable men in Lawrenceburgh. I was a boy when he died, but I remember him distinctly, because he was a man whom boys liked. His name should be long preserved on account of his many fine qualities."

"HISTORY OF DEARBORN AND OHIO COUNTIES, INDIANA-1885"
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W. D. H. HUNTER, United States revenue collector, Sixth Indiana District, born in the city of Lawrenceburgh January 8, 1830, is a son of James W. (whose biography appears above) and Harriett Hunter. Dr. HUNTER obtained the rudiments of an education in the best schools of Lawrenceburgh, which was before the days of public schools, and at the age of eighteen entered Asbury University, at Greencastle, Ind., taking a scientific course. . In the spring of 1851 he moved to Mexico, Mo., where he engaged in the study of medicine with an elder brother, subsequently, attending lectures at the Ohio Medical Collete, Cincinnati. Returning to Missouri he began the practice of his profession, which he continued but a brief period when he entered the drug business, owing to the unpleasant features connected with the medical practice of that locality. He remained a resident of Mexico till 1871, and became one of the leading citizens of that part of the State, and during his residence there occupied many positions of honor and trust at the hands of an appreciative people. He was several times mayor of Mexico; was a long time member of the city council and served one term as clerk of the county court. He was appointed postmaster of Mexico by President Pierce, was nominated to represent the counties of Audrain, Lincoln and Pike in the constitutional convention called to consider the position of Missouri in relation to the Civil war, but declined; in 1864 was elected representative of Audrain County to the State Legislature, taking a prominent part of the deliberations of the House; in 1866 was appointed assessor of internal revenue for the Fourth District of Missouri by President Johnson; was made representative of the Ninth Congressional District of Missouri in the National Democratic Convention of 1868, and was a member of the committee on permanent organization of that body, and in the meantime was fourteen years editor of the Mexico Ledger. During his term of service in the Legislature Dr. HUNTER officiated as chairman of some of the most important committees, and his public career generally has been commended. He was a member of the State board of managers of the Missouri State Insurance Company, and was president of the local board for Audrain County; also director of the life association America of St. Louis. In 1871 he came to Lawrenceburgh to assume the management of his mother's estate left to her control by the death of her late husband, Judge Isaac Dunn, and since that time has been a resident of his, native town. He purchased the Lawrenceburgh Register, the official paper of Dearborn County in 1877, and this journal he has since ably edited, assisted in its management by his son-in-law, W. H. O'Brien. In the journalistic field his reputation is also something more than local. He has officiated as president of the southeastern Indiana Editorial Association and vice-president of the southern Indiana Editorial Association, and was also president of the State Democratic Editorial Association. In the State politics of Indiana, Dr. HUNTER has also been recognized. At the Democratic State convention of Indiana, held at Indianapolis June 9, 1880, he was chosen a member of the State central committee for the Fourth Congressional District to serve two years, and in 1884 was chosen one of the electors at large for the State of Indiana in the national election of that year. IN public enterprises Dr. HUNTER is always in the foremost ran, having taken an active part in the locating of the North Missouri Railroad (now known as the Kansas City & Northern Railroad) as early as 1854, and was for some time director of the company. He was also among the first projectors of the Louisiana & Missouri River Railroad, now the western extension of th Chicago & Alton Railroad, of which he was also a director and took an active part in raising subscriptions to its stock. In 1885 was appointed collector of internal revenue for the Sixth District of Indiana by President Cleveland, and in this capacity he is now officiating in connection with his editorial work. The Doctor was first married, November 21, 1854, to Lucy J. WHITE of Audrain County, Mo., who lived but a few months after her marriage. October 15, 1857, he was married to his present wife, Miss Fannie A. CAUTHORN, daughter of Ross and Sarah CAUTHORN, of Essex County, Va. Their two children are Hattie, now the wife of William H. O'Brien and Bessie. Dr. HUNTER is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and also of the Masonic fraternity, and is in every respect an honorable gentleman, and exemplary citizen.

"HISTORY OF DEARBORN AND OHIO COUNTIES, INDIANA-1885"
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GEORGE HUSCHART, of the firm of George HUSCHART & Co., marble dealers, Lawrenceburgh City, is a native of Bavaria, born May 11, 1819. He immigrated to America in 1833 with his parents, his father entering Congress land in th is county. He lived on the farm till eighteen years of age, and then took up the trade of marble cutting, in which he has since been engaged. Mr. HUSCHART was married, in 1841, to Margaret LANG. Their children are George H., Michael M., Frank M, Henry A. , Margaret, Frances, Mary, Lana M., and Clara. These are engaged as follows: Michael M., in the marble business, Lawrenceburgh; Frank M., salesman for Roth & Myer, Cincinnati, Ohio; George H., commission merchant, Baltimore; Frances, wife of John P. GEORGEN, Chicago; Mary, a sister in the convent, Fort Wayne; Lana, wife of Marks KEIFFER, Camden, NJ. Mr. HUSCHART is one of Lawrenceburgh's most worthy citizens. He began the marble business with one Umpstead in 1840. The firm deals in the best foreign and domestic marble, statuary, tombstones and granite monuments, freestone building work, etc., doing a flourishing business.

"HISTORY OF DEARBORN AND OHIO COUNTIES, INDIANA-1885"
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