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He was with us for the last time at the first
recitation of Junior year, in the Fall of 1862. He then left college and enlisted in the
United States Navy, serving as Secretary to the Commandant of the Squadron off
Charleston, South Carolina, and also as signal officer. In 1864 he resigned his position in
the navy and went to New Mexico, where he was engaged in merchandising, contracting,
etc. While there, he held appointments as deputy internal revenue assessor, postmaster,
alcalde, notary public, and colonel of militia. In 1870 he went into business at New
Orleans, Louisiana, where his home was. He remained there until 1879, when he went to
the San Juan country, in Colorado, and engaged in mining, where he still remains. He is
located at Animas Forks, Colorado, of which city he is now serving his second term as
Mayor. A copy of the Animas Forks Pioneer speaks of him as "Colonel Hunt, our worthy
and popular Mayor." He writes that the details of his career would fill a book.
In politics, he is a Democrat. He has never married
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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