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Benjamin T. Hunt
Clayton County
Born in central New York, November, 1817, and when a young man moved to Fairfield, Van Buren County, where he taught school for a short time, and then learned the trade of a shoemaker, which occupation he followed until he was twenty-eight years of age, in the mean-time reading law under the direction of Mr. Foote, an attorney of Fairfield. On his admission to the bar he retired from the shoemaker's bench, and for about two years traveled, giving lectures. At the conclusion of his lecturing tours he commenced the practice of his profession at Fairfield, continuing there with varying success until 1857, when he came West to Prairie du Chien, where he became a member of the firm of Blair, Hunt & Bullock, which connection continued about one year, when he removed to McGregor, and became a partner of C.F. Remick. In 1860 he came to Elkader and formed a partnership with Samuel Murdoch. The partnership was dissolved in the fall of 1862, when Mr. Hunt took as a partner his late law student, R.E. Price, and under the firm name of Hunt & Price the partnership continued until he was elected judge of the circuit court in the fall of 1868. Judge Hunt was one of the best cross examiners that ever practiced at the Bar of Clayton County. As an advocate he was regarded as one of the best, and as a judge, his decisions were generally accepted is correct, and he was popular with bar and people.
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