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BIOGRAPHIES
Source: The Biographical Annals of Ohio - 1906 - 1907 - 1909 -
A
Handbook of the Government and Institution of the State of Ohio.
by A. P. SANDLES, Clerk of the Senate - E. W. DOTY,
Clerk House of Representatives
77th General Assembly
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)
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Thomas Hunt |
THOMAS HUNT,
Cincinnati
THOMAS HUNT is a native of Belmont County, Ohio. His
father was Samuel P. Hunt, who studied medicine with
Dr. Hoover in Barnesville, and who after he had
finished his studies removed with the family to Cambridge,
Guernsey County, when his son Thomas was two years of
age. Here the family remained until the boy was nine
years old, when Dr. Hunt removed again to Morrow,
Warren County.
Thomas Hunt attended the academy of Robert Way,
near that place, and was later sent to St. Xavier's College
at Cincinnati. Soon after returning home he learned
the telegraphic art and was given charge of the office at
Morrow along with that of the agency of the Little Miami
Railroad at that place, which he held for twelve years,
resigning then to take charge of a flour mill which he
bought at Sterling, Illinois. Five years were spent
there, making and shipping flour to the Chicago market, when
he sold the business and was offered the agency of the L. C.
& L. R. R. at Lexington, Ky. After two years was
transferred to Danville, Ky., and after four years there
resigned on account of ill health and after a few months'
rest accepted a position in the office of his brother who
was superintendent of a division of the East Tenn., Va. &
Ga. R. R., with headquarters at Atlanta, Ga. After two
years' service there the brothers went to Winfield, Kansas,
where the younger brother, Samuel, was given charge
of the construction of a branch of the Mo. Pacific R. R.
After the same was finished he was made superintendent, with
his brother Thomas as assistant in his office.
After three years Thomas followed his brother to Ohio
and was elected secretary and treasurer of the Cincinnati,
Portsmouth & Va. R. R. Co. which he held until the sale of
that road to the Norfolk & Western R. R. and then returned
to work for his health and to study the science of political
economy.
He was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1905 on the
Democratic ticket. He had been a Republican in the
days of Abraham Lincoln, but could not stand for that
dreadful system of taxation called the tariff, which later
became one of the tenets of the Republican party.
Source: The Biographical Annals of Ohio - 1906 - 1907 - 1909
- by A. P. SANDLES, Clerk of the Senate - E. W. DOTY,
Clerk House of Representatives - 77th General Assembly -
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