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Born 1818
From Biographical review of Des Moines County, Iowa (1905)
WILLIAM CLAIBORNE HUNT.
Theke is no name in Des Moines county which carries with it more of integrity, of uprightness, of earnest citizenship, or calls forth more universal expressions of regard, than that of W. Claiborne Hunt, now among the oldest settlers in the county. Whatever of virtue in the chapter of Mr. Hunt, whatever of quality in his living, has been directly founded upon traits inherited from an ancestry rich in the virtues of patriotism, loyalty, steadfastness, and principle, which to-day places him in the foremost ranks of lilOGHAPHlCAL REl lEW the highly honored and respected nu-n of the coinnuinitv.
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Claiborn Hunt attended the district schools in Bond county for a short time, and then later pursued his studies in a little old log schoolhouse in McDonough county. Illinois. He then remained on his father's farm till he was about twenty-one years of age, when he went to Eddyville, Iowa, in i83r), and lived alone on a piece of land for a while.
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As printed in Biographical review of Des Moines County, Iowa (1905). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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