(1846-May 1926; date of death 1930 also found), physician. Born Charlottenburgh Township, GC. Henry Hunt attended high school at Williamstown, and in 1876 obtained his medical degree from McGill. Dr Hunt came to Williamstown 20 July 1876, and practised medicine there 1876-1888. When he and his wife left Williamstown for Toronto, they were given a banquet at Williamstown on 13 Nov. 1888. George H. McGillivray was the chairman at the banquet. G.A. Gadbois was among the organizers. The telegram of 12 Nov. 1888 summoning Big Rory McLennan to the banquet survives among Big Rory’s papers in the Ontario Achives. Rather briefly, at the end of Dr Hunt’s time in Williamstown, Dr R. A. Westley practised medicine with him. Harkness reports that Dr Hunt built a summer home at Santa Cruz, in Osnabruck Township, but that “his wife died about the time of its completion and the house has remained vacant ever since.” His wife was Jane E. Fulton (1856-1921). Dr Hunt’s diary or journal for the years 1884 to 1907 is in the Ontario Archives. About 40 pages of the diary deal with his Williamstown years. Dr Hunt had at least two daughters, one of whom, born at Williamstown, married J. H. (Harry) Bowen, son of Joshua C. Bowen. (her obituary, Standard Freeholder 17 Nov. 1937) Dr Henry Hunt gave a communion set as a gift to St. Andrew’s Church, Williamstown, on the church centenary in 1912. and he was, presumably, the “Dr Hunt, Toronto,” who attended G. H. McGillivray’s funeral in 1912.

     The North Branch Cemetery, outside Martintown, GC, has the gravestone of Dr Ebenezer Hunt, who died aged 84, and his wife Leah Alcock, died aged 83, also of their son Henry (27 Aug. 1797-3 July 1885), all of whom were natives of London, England. No record has come to light of Dr Ebenezer Hunt practising medicine in GC. However, in 1826 the GC residents Ebenezer Hunt, M.D., and Henry Hunt, “Gentleman,” proposed to join the expedition to settle in Ops Township. (See entries, this dictionary, for Duncan Macdonell of Greenfield, and Dr A. Blacklock) Also, on 26 Feb. 1849, Henry Hunt purchased Lots 7 & 8, in the 13th Concession of Indian Lands, a total of 167 acres. He, and not Dr Henry Hunt of the present entry, must have been the Henry Hunt, of Indian Lands, GC, who in the 1860-1861 census identified himself and his family as Mohammedans. Ewan Ross has suggested that the Henry Hunt of the census “was in rebellion against the badly fragmented Christianity of his neighbours, each of whom was certain that his version was the one and only correct one.” Dr Henry Hunt of the present entry appears to have been the grandson of Ebenezer. The Henry Hunt who died in 1885 also practised medicine. Ebenezer, besides being a medical man, had been a Nonconformist clergyman in England.