Brief Life History of Ira S
When Ira S Hunt was born on 28 October 1853, in Delaware, Indiana, United States, his father, Jonathan Freer Hunt, was 24 and his mother, Sarah Martha Emery, was 22. He married Lydia M. Younce on 13 February 1872, in Delaware, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Montgomery, Iowa, United States in 1905 and Watkins, Adams, Colorado, United States in 1910. He registered for military service in 1862. He died on 24 April 1923, in Brush, Morgan, Colorado, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Brush Memorial Cemetery, Brush, Morgan, Colorado, United States.
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- Ira S Hunt, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ira Hunt - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Ira Josephus Hunt
- Ira S Hunt, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
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1856 · The Town of Santa Claus
The town of Santa Fe was denied their application for a United States Postal Service as a town of Santa Fe, Indiana, was already established. Several meetings were held and the name was changed to Santa Claus, Indiana. The United States Postal Service granted their application. Due to the name, the post office in Santa Claus continues to receive thousands of letters to Santa Claus from children around the world each December.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
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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