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ANTHONY HUNTER
ANTHONY HUNTER, a rancher of
Douglass Township, was born in County Antrim, Ireland, March 10, 1819, a son of
Anthony and Eliza (Lynn) Hunter. The mother died young, but the father lived to
be over eighty. With a limited education in his youth, Mr. Hunter worked on his
father’s farm until he left his native land for the United States.
Arriving in New York city in February,
1844, he proceeded westward to Ohio, where he bought a small farm of fifty
acres in Monroe County, for which he paid $500. This he held two years, when he
sold it for $1,000. For the ensuing five years he was variously employed; among
other jobs he worked on the suspension bridge at Wheeling, and kept a milk
dairy near that city.
In 1851 Mr. Hunter came to California by
the Isthmus route, arriving in San Francisco on the 1st of August.
Thence he went to mining in Calaveras County, where he stayed nine years, and
then came down to Stockton, where he resided from 1860 to 1863, doing but
little of anything. In 1863 he bought a ranch of 500 acres near Waterloo, on
which he lived until he sold it in 1867. In that year he went East to Ohio,
remaining only a few months.
Returning to this State in 1868, Mr.
Hunter was married in Murphy’s, Calaveras County, to Miss Eliza Magill. The
Hunters, Magills and Mateers of that section are all of Scotch descent. In 1868
he bought the ranch on which he has since resided, about nine miles east of
Stockton, on the Copperopolis road. It comprises 120 acres of very good land,
well adapted to all kinds of farming or fruit-raising. There is an orchard of
fourteen acres, and the rest is devoted chiefly to wheat and barley. He also
owns 322 acres about three miles away, near Linden, which he lets on the
shares, Mr. Hunter being too far advanced in years to give it personal
superintendence.
Mr. and Mrs. Hunter are the parents of one
child, Jennie Mateer, born August 22, 1869, in this township. She has attended
a business college in Stockton, and is now finishing her education at Mill’s
Seminary, near Oakland.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 641-642. Lewis Pub.
Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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