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GERMAN H. HUNT, Vice President of the Baltimore Trust and Guarantee Company, was born in Baltimore in 1829.  At the age of fifteen he left school and entered the establishment of John Watchman, in South Baltimore, to learn the trade of machinist.  On Jan. 1, 1851, he started into the foundry and machine business in a modest way on North street in partnership association with Robert Poole, under the firm of Poole & Hunt.   The development of this enterprise is one of the most interesting and important chapters in the industrial history of Baltimore.  Mr. Hunt was the business manager of this great concern, and both he and Mr. Poole machinists of exceptional ability, and men of boundless energy.  On Jan. 1, 1889, after thirty-eight years of continuous connection with the firm, Mr. Hunt retired from the business, and has since been engaged in important financial undertakings.  He was Secretary and President of the Maryland Institute during the decade preceding 1860.  He has been a Director of the Franklin Bank.  He has been a director for thirty years in the Central Savings Bank.  He was one of the founders of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association, of which he served as Vice-President and President.  He is a Director of the Board of Trade, a trustee of the McDonough Fund, and a member of the Board of Park Commissioners.  He is a Democrat, and has been frequently urged to accept the mayoralty and other nominations at his party's hands, but has never had political aspirations.  He was a delegate-at-large to the Democratic National Convention of 1888.  Mr. Hunt is one of the strongest men in the Methodist Church of the city.  He is a member of the Madison Avenue M. E. Church, and has been superintendent of its Sunday-school for twenty-five years.  Many positions of honor and trust in the church have been conferred upon him among them that of Treasurer of the Methodist Episcopal Conference, held in Washington in 1891.  He assisted in the organization of the Baltimore Trust and Guarantee Company, one of the strong financial institutions of the city, and was its first president.  This position he resigned to devote this time to his private business, and to various charitable associations in which he feels much interest. Source:  History of Baltimore, Maryland From It's Founding as a Town to the Current Year 1729 - 1898 - Publ. 1898 - Page 660

WILLIAM HUNT, deceased, was born at Alexandria, Va., in 1818.  His parents were New Englanders.  His father removed to Virginia when he was in his minority.  His son, William, the subject of this sketch, came to Baltimore when only a boy, where he served his time as apprentice to a ship carpenter.  Subsequently, and at the age of twenty-four, he went into partnership with William Wagner as ship builder under the firm name of Hunt & Wagner on South Ann street, but finally removed to Canton to accommodate their large increase in business.  He carried on this profitable business during the succeeding years until 1854, when he sold out his ship-building business upon the advice of his physician and engaged in the coasting trade.  He owned several tug boats and schooners for bay traffic, was a man of large influence in his circle and was respected by all who knew him.  In social life he held offices of honor and trust.  Though weak in body he was a man of energy and endurance.  He built up for himself a beautiful home with all the modern comforts and luxuries, which his wife enjoys in her declining years.      He was married to Miss Susannah, daughter of Patrick Dickey, a native of Belfast, Ireland, who came to this country about 1817.  He was a manufacturer of woolen goods, etc., and was located on West Saratoga street.  He was an extensive dealer in his day.  He died Feb. 18, 1872. Source:  History of Baltimore, Maryland From It's Founding as a Town to the Current Year 1729 - 1898 - Publ. 1898 - Page 987