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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
General History of Macon County, Missouri
- Vols. 1 & 2 -
Publ.
Chicago: Henry Taylor & Company
1910
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James R. Hunt, M. D. |
JAMES ROBERT
HUNT, M. D.
With twelve years of active general practice in this county
as a physician and surgeon, Dr. James R. Hunt has had
opportunity to win a large business and establish himself
firmly in the regard and good will of the people, and he has
used his opportunity to the best of advantage by faithfully
performing his every duty and giving the public the best
service of which he has been capable, which has been the
best his circumstances and abilities have permitted.
He has taken nothing for granted and been satisfied with
nothing less than the best that was attainable. He has
kept abreast of the most advanced thought and discovery in
his profession by a close and reflective study of its
literature and a free interchange of thought and experience
with its leading practitioners all around him.
Dr. Hunt is an native of Macon county and his
professional services have had the incentive, in addition to
others, of being rendered to his own people - the men and
women among whom he has grown to manhood and passed his life
so far. He was born on Apr. 18, 1874, the son of
John Henry and Julia (Leathe) Hunt, born Oct. 16, 1839,
the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Virginia.
The father became a resident of Macon county when he was but
ten years of age and has been living within its confines
ever since prosperously engaged in farming. His birth
occurred Mar. 25, 1833 and his marriage on Apr. 18, 1856.
He and his wife became the parents of eight children three
of whom are living: Ella, wife of George
Brock, of College Mound; George O., a successful
Macon county farmer; and Dr. James R., the immediate
subject of this sketch. The father has been a
life-long Democrat in politics. He and the mother are
still living and have their home at Calleo.
Dr. Hunt was reared in the city of Macon and
began his scholastic training in its public schools.
This he completed at the Missouri State University, which he
attended two years. At the end of his university
course he began the study of medicine at St. Louis,
attending the Beaumont Hospital Medical College, from which
he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1897. He
began his practice at Macon and for eight years, while
performing with fidelity and zeal the duties of a general
practitioner, he also served as physician and surgeon for
the Central Coal and Coke Company at that place. In
June, 1906, he located at Callao, where he has been carrying
on an increasing practice ever since. He has now
reached the first rank of physicians in the county, and
while standing well with his professional brethren, is also
cordially respected and esteemed by all classes of the
people.
In connection with his practice he owns and operates a
drug store in Callao, and to this he gives his personal
attention to the extent of seeing that it is conducted with
every regard to the welfare of its patrons, and that all its
work is first class in every particular. The utmost
care is used in compounding prescriptions, and only the
freshest and purest drugs are employed in the work.
The general stock of the store is up to the highest
standard, and the prices are always reasonable and fair.
While Democratic in his politics, the Doctor is not an
active partisan, always believing that he does his part in
helping to keep the people from illness and relieve their
sufferings when sickness or disease assails them, without
attempting to aid in governing them. Fraternally he is
a member of the Masonic order, the Odd Fellows and the
Woodmen. Professionally he is examiner for the New
York and the Aetna Life Insurance Companies and the National
Life Insurance Company, of Vermont. He was married on
Apr. 13, 1898, to Miss Nellie Gibbs Cromwell a native
of this county, born Jan. 11, 1877. He has been very
successful and is acknowledged to be one of the leading
physicians of the county.
Source:
General History of Macon County, Missouri - Vol. II - Publ.
Chicago: Henry Taylor & Company - 1910 - Page 698 |
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