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JOHN NEWELL HUNT
HUNT, JOHN NEWELL, Treasurer, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, was born in De Witt County, Illinois, February 20, 1863, the son of Dr. John B. Hunt and Sarah E. (Barnett) Hunt. He married Hattie P. Collins, at Los Angeles, December 7, 1887, and to them there have been born three children, Harry C., Grace C. and Edward T. Hunt.
Mr. Hunt received his education in the common schools of Clinton, Illinois. He spent his young manhood in Illinois, engaging in various lines of business, and in 1882 moved to California, where he engaged in ranching and commercial lines for several years. From 1887 to 1894 he was engaged in the banking business with the Southern California Savings Bank. From 1895 to 1907 he was Deputy Tax Collector of Los Angeles County, and left that position in the latter year to assume the office of County Treasurer, to which he had been elected in November, 1906.
Mr. Hunt is a man of high principles and an ardent worker for the advancement of the city in which he has elected to make his home. He is ever ready to aid any movement calculated to benefit Los Angeles. He is a member of the Union League Club of Los Angeles and the Scottish Rite Masons.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 593,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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