Henry Clifford Hunt

Brief Life History of Henry Clifford

When Henry Clifford Hunt was born on 18 December 1864, in Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, his father, John Franklin Hunt, was 41 and his mother, Sarah Jane Nickerson, was 39. He married Mary Louise Orcutt on 29 January 1888, in Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He died on 17 January 1898, in Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 33, and was buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.

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Family Time Line

Henry Clifford Hunt
1864–1898
Mary Louise Orcutt
1867–1954
Marriage: 29 January 1888
Marion Louise Hunt
1891–1969
Alice H Foster
1895–
Mildred Alberta Hunt
1893–1974

Sources (16)

  • Henry C Hunt in household of John F Hunt, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Hunt, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
  • Henry C. Hunt, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"

World Events (8)

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

1865 · The Assassination of a President

"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

English (southwestern): occupational name for a hunter, from Middle English hunte ‘hunter, huntsman’ (Old English hunta). The term was used not only of the hunting on horseback of game such as stags and wild boars, which in the Middle Ages was a pursuit restricted to the ranks of the nobility, but also to much humbler forms of pursuit such as bird catching and poaching for food. The word seems also to have been used as an Old English personal name and to have survived into the Middle Ages as an occasional personal name. Compare Huntington and Huntley .

Irish: adopted for various Irish surnames containing or thought to contain the Gaelic element fiadhach ‘hunt’; for example Ó Fiaich (see Fee ) and Ó Fiachna (see Fenton ).

Possibly an Americanized form of German Hundt .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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