HARRINGTON FAMILY.  The family of Harrington in Rhode Island - the name formerly spelled Harnedeen, Hearndeen, Hearnden, Hernton, etc., - is of English origin, and tradition says the name finds its origin from the word Heatherington, meaning "home loving," a marked characteristic of the family.   The English progenitors comprise an old English family, the seat of which is in Harrington Northampton, where may be seen the coat of arms.  The Rhode Island family trace their ancestry to
     (I)  Benjamin Hearnden, as the name is recorded, came, it is claimed by some, from England, and was of record in Providence as early as Oct. 16, 1662, when he purchased of William and Elizabeth White, of Boston property consisting of a house and lot of twenty-five acres.  The homestead was on North Main street and Harrington Lane, renamed North street, and since changed to Rochambeau avenue, named for the owner of the property there.  The original homestead farm comprised a part of the North Burying Ground, and it was there, for two generations, that the Hearndens and Harringtons  of Foster came to bury their dead.  The wife of Benjamin Hearnden was formerly Elizabeth White, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth White who remarried after her husband's death in 1687.  Their children were: Sarah, Alice, Mary, Benjamin, Joseph, William, John, Thomas and Isaac.
     (II)  John Hearnden, of Harrington, son of Benjamin resided for a time in Providence, but latter settled in the town of Scituate, now Foster, in the Moosup Valley, and his was said to have been the first house in the present town of Foster.  when he came to Foster there were but two or three other houses standing from the Providence river to the Connecticut line.  He held a grant of 960 acres of land, and built his house on the north end of his claim on a rocky knowl, overlooking the entire grant to the southward.  He died in 1736.  John Hearnden took the oath of allegiance in May, 1682, and his name appears frequently as deeding land to his sons, John, Josiah, Amos, Jonathan and Stephen.
     (III)  Josiah Harrington, son of John, received by deed from his father, June 8, 1729, 140 acres of land.  His will made May 7, 1785, was proved Feb. 12, 1787.  His children of Scituate town record are:  Josiah, born Oct. 10, 1727; Elizabeth, Oct. 8, 1730; Nathan, Apr. 27, 1733; Martha, Apr. 24, 1736; Mary, July 1, 1738; Silas, June 4, 1740, and Simeon.
     (IV)  Captain Simeon Harrington, son of Josiah, born Apr. 22, 1743, was a captain of the Second Company of Militia of Scituate, May, 1776-78-79-80, and served in the Revolution.  He married Zilpha Bennett, daughter of Elder Bennett, and their children were:  Susannah who married Jonathan Wood; Josiah who married Susannah Bennett; Simeon; Zilpha, who died unmarried; Elizabeth who married Nathan Bennett; Martha, who died unmarried; Peter, who wedded Mercy Sweet, and Joshua, who married Susan Johnson.
     (V) Simeon Harrington, son of Captain Simeon, was born in the town of Foster, May 19, 1778, and died Oct. 16, 1847.  He spent his early life in his native town, engaged in farming.  Later life in his native town, engaged in farming.  Later he resided at Phenix, subsequently removing to North Scituate, where he was a teacher and dealer in live stock, and there has death occurred.  He married Waitey Angell born June 4, 1786, daughter of Nehemiah and Anna (Hill) Angell  She survived her husband, and died Aug. 27, 1853.  Both were buried at North Scituate.  There children were: (1) Wheaton Allen was born Oct. 10, 1809.  (2) Josiah Bennett, June 17, 1811, was engaged in the mercantile business at Providence, and there died Oct. 3, 1899.  He married Huldah Aldrich, a twin of the wife of Wheaton A., and their children were:  Henry A., who married Mary L. Drowne, and resides in Providence; Charles C., who died in infancy; Samuel L., and Walter S. (twins), the former of whom died in infancy, and the latter at the age of twenty-one years; and Adelaide A., who married Thomas R. Drowne, and resides in Providence.  (3) Ann Eliza, born July 3, 1813, married John H. Barden, a merchant and prominent citizen of Scituate.  She died Jan. 23, 1892, leaving four children: Juliette, John H., Ruth A., and Allen A. all of whom are deceased.  (4) Mary Emily, born Sept. 5, 1815, died Mar. , 1891.  She married Daniel A. Clarke (sketch elsewhere), a merchant of North Scituate, who died June 19, 1900, and they had four children:  Harrison who died in his twenty-sixth year;  Zilpha Ann, who died when five years old; Daniel Alfred, who married Gertrude Randall, and resides at North Scituate; and Charles K., who married Lizzie Manter, and is a physician at Fiskeville.  (5) Emery E., born May 1, 1818, died unmarried Dec. 6, 1880.  (6) Lurancy, born Oct. 20, 1821, died Apr. 27, 1891.  She married Knight H. Barden, and they had two children: Isadore F., wife of John H. Eddy, of Providence; and Eliza Ann, who resides in Scituate.  (7) Alfred Angell, born Dec. 23, 1825, died Sept. 22, 1899.  He married Susan N. Irons, and they had the following children: Clifford Angell, who married Althea E. Thompson, and resided in Providence, died in 1901; Shirley died at the age of eight years; and Julia Anna resides in Providence.  (8) Darius Olney, born Apr. 9, 1827, died Sept. 22, 1828.  (9) Olney Brayton, born Nov. 8, 1830, died Jan. 22, 1831.
     (VI)  Wheaton Allen Harrington was born Oct. 10, 1809, at Foster, R. I., and his early life was spent there.  He came to Providence as a boy, and was employed as a clerk in a store of his uncle, Joshua Harrington, subsequently engaging in the grocery business for himself on High street, opposite Battey and was there engaged for a number of years.  Later he was engaged in the hard- ware business with his brother Josiah, and in his business ventures was very prosperous. He in- vested his surplus capital in real estate, and the latter years of his life were spent in the management thereof.  Mr. Harrington died Dec. 23, 1881, and was buried at Scituate.  He was a quiet, home-loving man, and was never a member of any society or organization.  His wife was a member of the Roger Williams Free Baptist Church, of which he was a regular attendant.
     Wheaton Allen Harrington married, Apr. 1, 1839, Elizabeth Smith Aldrich, who died Nov. 3, 1895, in her eighty-first year.  She was a daughter of Philip and Sarah (Waterman) Aldrich, and granddaughter of Noah and Huldah (Whitaker) Aldrich.  Their children were; (1) Alice, born Jan. 6, 1840, died Oct. 14, 1840. (2) Byron Wheaton, born June 6, 1845, married Emma E. Hooper, of Fall River, Mass., who is now deceased.  Mr. Harrington, in early life, resided in Providence, but since 1882 he has been a resident of the State of California, now residing at Los Gatos.  He was the father of two children: Alice, who died young; and Elizabeth Aldrich, who now resides in Boston, Mass.  (3) Charles Carroll was born Nov. 9, 1847.
     (VII)  CHARLES CARROLL HARRINGTON was born in Providence, and received his education in the public schools and in the private school of Jenckes Mowry on Mount Pleasant.  After leaving school at the age of twenty-years, he became a bookkeeper at the Mechanics National Bank, and remained connected with that institution until 1879, when he resigned his position to devote his entire attention to the management of one half of the large estate of his father-in-law, George A. Howard, at which he has since been engaged.  Mr. Harrington is a prominent factor in financial circles in Providence, being president of the Mechanics Savings Bank, to which position he was elected in 1900, and is also a director in the Mechanics National Bank, and a director in the Industrial Trust Company.  In his political views he is a Republican, but he has never sought, nor would he accept, a political position.  Like his father and ancestors.  Mr. Harrington is a man of domestic tastes and habits, very fond of his home and family.  He is, however, a member of several clubs, Hope, Squantum, Agawam Hunt, Commercial, and the Aiken Club, of Aiken, S. C., the latter being a club composed entirely of regular visitors to that famous resort.  He is a member of the Roger Williams Free Baptist Church, with which he united when a young man.
     On Nov, 9, 1870, Mr. Harrington was married to Mary E., daughter of George A. Howard, of Providence.  Two children were born to them as follows:  Charles Howard, Jan. 7, 1872, died July 1, 1880; and George Wheaton, born Aug. 20, 1874, married Sept. 21, 1898, Marion Andrews of Boston, and they have two children:  George Jeffrey, born Feb. 13, 1901; and Carroll, born July 15, 1902.
     Waitey (Angell) Harrington, wife of Simeon, and grandmother of Charles C. Harrington, was born in Scituate, June 4, 1786, daughter of Nehemiah and Anna (Hill) Angell, and a descendant in the sixth generation from Thomas Angell, the lineage being traced back through Nehemiah, Nehemiah, Thomas, John and Thomas.
     (I)  Thomas Angell, the ancestor of the family in Rhode Island, was born in Liverpool, England, in 1618, and came to this country with roger Williams in the ship "Lion" in 1631, being at that time thirteen years of age, and an apprentice to Williams.  A more complete record of Thomas Angell's life will be found elsewhere in this work.
     (II)  John Angell, son of Thomas, was born in Providence, and there died, July 27, 1720.  He married Ruth Field, and their children were: Thomas, John, Daniel, Hope and James.
     (III)  Thomas Angell, born in Providence, Mar. 25, 1672, resided there until 1710, when he built a tavern house in Scituate, which was occupied as a public house for several successive generations of the family.  He died in Scituate in the year 1714.  His wife was Sarah Brown, and their children were:  Martha, Isaiah, Jeremiah Jonathan, Sarah, Nehemiah and Thomas, Jeremiah Angell of the above children, was the great-grandfather of James B. Angell, president of the University of Michigan.
     (IV)  Nehemiah Angell, born Sept. 3, 1752, died Aug. 3, 1828.  He engaged in Agricultural pursuits, and resided in Foster, about one-half mile south of Hemlock Village.  In early life he enjoyed but poor advantages for an education, but from his fondness for books, especially of history, he acquired considerable knowledge, and encouraged his children to make the most of their opportunities for learning. The sociable and hospitable character of this family rendered them conspicuous in the town in which they resided.  Mr. Angell was one of the first to respond to the call for troops at the breaking out of the Revolutionary war, and was on the ground at Bunker Hill, helping to throw the breastwork that protected our soldiers in that fierce battle.  He did not, however, participate in that battle, having been dispatched as a recruiting officer, or to carry messages to his own State to wake up new interest in the cause of Liberty.  He afterwards joined the regular army, and served as an ensign, having an honorable record as a soldier.  He lived to advanced years, and died in 1828.
     Nehemiah Angell was united in marriage with Anna Hill, daughter of John Hill, and to this union were born the following children:  Mary married Dr. H. Colwell; Lucinda married Stephen Howard; Allen, married Margaret Young; Alice; Waitey married Simeon Harrington; Lydia married Susan Wood; and Anna married William Whitman.  The Angell family is one of the most highly esteemed in the State.
Source: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island - Vol. I - Publ. 1908 - Page 468

GEORGE HUNT, deceased, equally well known as a manufacturer of gold jewelry and a lover and master of botany - a happy combination of the prosperous man of affairs and the enthusiastic, lovable man who lives close to nature - was for sixty-five years a resident of Providence, and during that long period the process by which he became established in the confidence and affection of the people was continuous and unvarying.  The son of Peter and Sarah (Wheeler) Hunt, he was born in Sudbury near Concord, Mass., his descent being traced through English ancestry and a line of American forefathers, the latter of whom were natives of these places.  the Massachusetts genealogy is as below.
     (I) William Hunt, of Concord, born in England in 1605, came to New England in 1635.  He married (first) Elizabeth Best, and (second) Mercy Rice.
     (II) Isaac Hunt, of Concord, born in 1647, married Mary Stone.
     (III) Isaac Hunt (2), of Sudbury, born in 1668, married Mary Willard.
     (IV) Isaac Hunt (3), of Sudbury, married Martha Goodnow.
     (V) William Hunt (2), of Sudbury, born, Apr. 3, 1726, married Mary Wheeler.
     (VI) William Hunt (3), of Sudbury, born Mar. 7, 1753, married Mary Plimpton.
     (VII) Peter Hunt, of Sudbury, born Mar. 3, 1781, married in 1805 Sarah A. Wheeler.
     (VIII) George Hunt was born Jan. 3, 1811.  His father died when he was but eight years of age, and the boy then went to live with his grandfather, William Hunt.  His work upon the farm and his free outdoor life, joined to a naturally observant and susceptible nature, aroused in him a love for plants and flowers, which but strengthened with time and close contact with city life.  Although his literary advantages were such only as were afforded by the country schools of the early portion of his century, he was so quick, active and bright that he was able to provide for himself when only thirteen years of age.  His elder sister had already settled in Providence as the wife of Peter Church, member of the firm of Church & Metcalf, manufacturing jewelers, and when about nineteen years of age George, ambitious for a broader life, removed to the city and made his home with her.  He was apprenticed to the firm of Church & Metcalf, then located on Steeple street, and thoroughly mastered the trade.  In 1841 he formed a partnership with Ezekiel Owen, under the name of Hunt & Owen, for the manufacture of solid gold jewelry.  Their establishment was located at No. 7 President street (now Waterman), the site at present occupied by the Rhode Island School of Design.  At the outset both Mr. Hunt and Mr. Owen worked at the bench themselves, and relied entirely on hand power.  In 1847 they removed to the north side of Steeple street, and in 1855 to the corner of Dorrance and Weybosset streets, where they remained for thirty-two years, or until the firm retired from business in 1887.  At that time the business had developed into one of the most extensive in the city, the manufactory being provided with the most modern machinery and appliances.
     Outside his important business interests Mr. Hunt was deeply concerned in civic affairs and was a prominent participant in the municipal government.  He served as a member of the common council from 1851 to 1854, and from 1861 to 1863.  In politics he was first a Whig and later a Republican.
     Like most of those who retain a cheerful and elastic nature to a good old age, Mr. Hunt enjoyed a lifelong recreation which kept both his body and his mind in active exercise.  In his case the seasoning of the serious concerns of life was the study of the natural sciences.  To the last he found time to indulge his love of nature by long rambles in the woods, and by visits to the botanical haunts of the State, with which he was very familiar and which he explored year after year with as much pure enjoyment after his eightieth year as in his younger days.  With the study of botany he joined later that of entomology, accumulating both an extensive herbarium and a large collection of insects, presented after his death to Brown University by his daughter.
     At the time of his decease Mr. Hunt was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  He was also a charter member of the Horticultural Society of Providence, instituted in 1845, and for a period of fifty years was an active participant in its committee work and general proceedings, serving as its president from 1876 to 1879.  He was also a member of the Franklin Society, being its vice-president from 1869 to 1878.
     The following suggestive extract from the Providence Journal is an epitome of Mr. Hunt's character - a character sketch well worthy of preservation, which appeared in that publication at the time of his death, in Providence, on Feb. 21, 1895.
     "Although, engaged in the active duties of a manufacturer, he never gave up the pursuits of a florculturist.  One never went to him with a rare plant, especially if indigenous to Rhode Island, without learning correctly its name, its haunts, its habits and its peculiar characteristics.  He showed in the Horticultural Society, as he did everywhere, the breadth of his knowledge, and there, as everywhere, he was a quiet, modest unassuming gentleman, who could express in the clearest manner the thought which possessed him, and with a degree of persuasiveness which carried conviction.  But let no one imagine, because he was persuasive, that he lacked firmness, or the courage of his convictions and the willingness to express them when they differed from those of others around him.  Truthful and frank to a degree seldom equalled, he was so gentle in his manner, so considerate of others, so just in his judgment, so wise in his decisions and so courteous in stating them, that he won a host of friends; and 'once a friend, always a friend,' could be said of him as of few others.  It would seem as if the very flowers of the field would miss him, and if the highways and stone walls, and the hills and dales are not conscious of something gone, those whose privilege it was to tramp with him will not, while life lasts, forget the keen enjoyment which has been vouchsafed to them in being able to accompany him and share with him a close communion with nature.  One could not know him without having a higher idea of the worth and dignity of human nature, and a consciousness that one may grow old in years and remain youthful and cheerful in spirit, and keep in touch with the young life of an ever renewing present.  As was once said of Stephen Longfellow, of Portland, an uncle of the poet, so may it be said in closing of Mr. Hunt, 'Such men never die.'"
     George Hunt was married in June, 1841, to EVELINA Metcalf, daughter of Jesse and Eunice Dench (Houghton) Metcalf, and her biography is given below.  Her death occurred twelve years previous to that of her husband, and they were the parents of two daughters: Mary Eva, born Nov. 14, 1845, was married in Mar. 1869, to Andrew Ingraham, of New Bedford, Mass., now deceased, and they had four children, George Hunt, Margaret (deceased), Arthur and Edward; Miss ELLEN G., born Oct. 7, 1849, is a resident of Providence, Rhode Island.
     EVELINA METCALF (as the wife of George Hunt was known before marriage) was born in Providence, R. I., Jan. 30, 1820, and died in her native city Aug. 23, 1883.  She came of a family which since the early portion of the eighteenth century had been identified with the history of Providence.  About 1737 Eleazer Metcalf, of Dedham, Mass., located at Providence, and in 1780 Joel and Lucy (Gay) Metcalf, of Attleboro, Mass., became residents of the place.  The two Joels, Jesse, Joseph G., Col. Edwin, Major George, Alfred, Franklin, Jesse H., Stephen O. and Edward P. Metcalf have all impressed themselves upon the history of Providence. It is the branch of the family represented by Joel Metcalf, of Attleboro, to which Mrs. Hunt belongs.  He was her paternal grandfather, born in that place in 1755, and his wife, Lucy Gay, was also a native of Attleboro.  Jesse, their son and the father of Mrs. Hunt, was born May 15, 1790, and died in the prime of life, June 20, 1838.  His marriage to Eunice D. Houghton, daughter of John, occurred Apr. 19, 1812, and she died May 5, 1858, the mother of nine children, of whom Evelina was the fourth.  Her early education was obtained under Oliver Angell, who taught a flourishing school at the corner of Main and Mill streets.  Later she attended a school at Charlestown, Mass., and the Greene street school, of Providence, of which Hiram Fuller was the head.  While at the latter institution she came under the influence of that remarkable woman, Margaret Fuller, and from her imbibed a keen love of literature, especially of poetry, while her spiritual nature was stimulated at the same time and strengthened.
     Mrs. Hunt's married life commenced when she was twenty-one years of age, and during the forty years of its duration she was especially identified with the philanthropies of Providence, ever contributing to the relief and enjoyment of others.  At the outbreak of the Civil war she became an active figure in the work of the Sanitary Commission, and labored unceasingly to alleviate suffering, both at the front and among the families of the soldiers at home.  In her religious belief she was a Unitarian ever upholding that faith by thought, word and deed.  During the last twenty years of her life she was an invalid, but though physically unable to enter into much of the work and sociability about her she never lost an opportunity to do good, or allowed her interest to flag in the welfare of family and friends, especially of the young.  Her death was a distinct loss to the culture and spirituality of the community.
Source: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island - Vol. I - Publ. 1908 - Page 698 - 700

SIMEON HUNT, M. D. - See HUNT above here.

THADDEUS WINFIELD HUNT, manager of the Wickford branch of the Industrial Trust Company, was born in Wickford, R. I., July 29, 1847, and is a descendant from one of the oldest families of Rhode Island.
     (I)  Bartholomew Hunt appears at Dover, N. H., as early as 1640.  He was a Newport, R. I., a freeman of the Colony here, in 1655.  He died in 1687, and his will was proved June 16th of that year.  The Christian name of his wife was Ann and their children were:  Bartholomew married, live in Newport and Tiverton, R. I., and left posterity; Adam; Naomi married and left posterity; Ezekiel is mentioned below; John; and three daughters, but of the latter nothing has been ascertained.
     (II)  Ezekiel Hunt, born Mar. 8, 1663, married Sarah, and they lived in Newport and East Greenwich, R. I.  their children were: Ezekiel, Samuel, Joseph, Bartholomew, Sarah, Naomi, Ann, a daughter, and Bartholomew (2).  the father had bought 100 acres of land in East Greenwich, R. I., in 1683, and ten years later, in 1693, he sold 100 acres of land in East Greenwich.  Later, in 1702, he purchased a house and ten acres of land in that same town.  He died in1748, and by his will his homestead was to go to his son Bartholomew, when of age, and if he died it was to go to his grandson Joseph, son of Joseph Hunt.  He also gave by will two farms in Warwick, R. I., to his sons, Ezekiel, Samuel and Joseph, and he gave to the last named , besides other land, a farm in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
     From this source came many of the Hunts of the region of country named, but from the meager public vital records, church and town, it is impracticable to follow out family genealogy.  Several children of Joseph and Freelove Hunt are of East Greenwich town record, the eldest child, Joseph by name, being born Oct. 3, 1729.  there is a record in North Kingstown of the marriage, May 2, 1762, of Samuel Hunt and Mary Weaver.  there is also a record there of the marriage of George Hunt, son of Samuel, to Elizabeth Whitford, daughter of Benjamin Witford, as having occurred there Dec. 6, 1788.  A George Hunt was married in Trinity Church, Newport, R. I., July 24, 1785, to Elizabeth Gibbs.  A Heart Hunt was baptized in that church May 18, 1760.  The children of George and Heart Hunt appear of North Kingstown town record and were: Esther, born Oct. 23, 1788; Gideon, Dec. 29, 1790; George, Apr. 25, 1793; Jeremiah, Feb. 21, 1796; David Whitford, Oct. 4, 1798; Mary Ann, Apr. 25, 1801; David, Feb. 26, 1804; Eliza, Sept. 17, 1806; and Charles, Feb. 9, ____.
     Gideon S. Hunt, grandfather of Thaddeus W., was born Dec. 29, 1790, and died Aug. 31, 1863.  He married Oct. 6, 1811, Rebecca Nason, born Oct. 25, 1793, who died Mar. 14, 1833.  To  them were born the following children:  David Nason, born Dec. 13, 1812, died Aug. 19, 1862; Gideon, born Nov. 27, 1814, died the next day; Elizabeth Hyde, born Feb. 14, 1816, married William E. Cozzens, and died Apr. 17, 1884, the mother of five children, namely - Mary Ann, Elizabeth West (deceased), Susan (married Charles Stafford and has three children, Mary E., Ellen Hays and Charles William), William Aldrich (who died in 1904) and Phebe (who died in infancy); Daniel, born Feb. 6, 1818, died Feb. 7, 1818; Rebecca, born June 15, 1819, married Samuel J. Andrews, and died Jan. 7, 1889, the mother of three children, Burritt, Martha Jane and Marilla; Gideon S., Jr.; Daniel, born Feb. 15, 1823, married Amy Ann Dawley, and died in May, 1886, leaving two children, Edwin and Abby; Samuel, born June 13, 1825, died the same day; Harriet, born Aug. 11, 1825, died the same day; Harriet, born Aug. 11, 1826, died the same day; Benoni, born May 15, 1827, died the same day; and Isaac, born Mar. 7, 1829, died the day following.  Mr. Hunt married for his second wife Abby Bissell.  He lived for many years on Pleasant street, Wickford, in a house which has since been torn down.  For the greater part of his life he engaged in painting.  He was very active in the work of the M. E. Church, and frequently walked from his home in Wickford to East Greenwich to attend church services and prayer meetings.
     David Nelson Hunt was born in Wickford, R. I., Dec. 13, 1812.  He engaged at teh painter's trade all his life.  He married Hannah Wyners Reynolds, a descendant of one of t he oldest families of North Kingstown, and to them were born these children: Rebecca, born Jan. 10, 1840, died Sept. 17, 1840; Rebecca W., born July 28,  1841, married Elliot E. Stedman, and had one son, Byron P., a resident of Providence; Hannah W., born June 18, 1844, died Oct. 10, 1844; Mary E., born Sept. 16, 1845; Thaddeus Winfield, born July 29, 1847; Abby S., born Oct. 30, 1849, married H. Alphonso Greene; David M., born Jan. 19, 1851, married Mary A. Bedford, and had issue Edith (who married J. W. Bedford, and had issue Edith (who married J. W. Baker) and Lillian; and William J., born Feb. 5, 1852, died Aug. 2, 1852.
     Thaddeus Winfield Hunt spent his early school days in Wickford, attending the Washington Academy, and subsequently pursued a course of study at Eastman’s Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.  From May 21, 1866, until April, 1883, he was with the firm of A. M. Thomas & Son, of Wickford, and on July 1st, of the latter year, he became cashier of the Wickford National Bank.  Upon its absorption, Feb. 1, 1902, by the Industrial Trust Company, Mr. Hunt became its manager.  In 1866 Mr. Hunt united with the Baptist Church, and from March 30, 1871, to March 31, 1894, served as superintendent of the Sundayschool.  Mr. Hunt is president of the hoard of trustees of the North Kingstown Tree Library: member of the school committee since 1889, and its clerk since 1898; member of the committee on the erection of the new school house in 1907; auditor of the town accounts; member of the board of trustees of Elm Grove Cemetery, and served as its clerk many years; and he was a member of the committee on the bonding of the town debt ($125,000) in 1905. Aside from his many other duties he has faithfully acted as administrator agent of many estates.  He is a member of Beacon Lodge, No. 38, I. O. O. F., of which he is past grand master.
     On Sept. 7, 1870, Mr. Hunt married Miss Laura Chase, daughter of William Gorham Chase, and to them were born two children:  Bessie L., born in September, 187_, died in infancy; and William Chase, born Oct. 18, 1874, and now connected with the Pawtucket Institution for Savings, married Mary E. Livingstone, and has twin daughters, Marguerite and Dorothy, born Apr. 28, 1907.
Source: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island - Vol. III - Publ. 1908 - Pages 1695 - 1696