When Henry Allen Hunter was born on 19 June 1910, in Grand Encampment, Carbon, Wyoming, United States, his father, Edward Madison Hunter, was 35 and his mother, Delphine Vivian Wombaker, was 29. He lived in Boone, Boone, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Scott Township, Floyd, Iowa, United States in 1930. He died on 18 January 1985, in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States.
Scottish and northern English: occupational name from Middle English hunter(e) ‘huntsman’ (see Hunt ).
Irish (Antrim and Derry): adopted for Gaelic Ó Fiaich (see Fee ) due to confusion with the word fiadhach ‘hunt’.
History: A Scottish family of this name (see 1 above) has been established at Hunterston (Ayrshire) since the 13th century.
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