W. M. Hunter

HUNTER, MEARS, CONN

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 3/6/2002 at 21:21:37

W. M. Hunter, the present county recorder, was born in Warren county, Indiana, March 11, 1853, and is a son of James and Caroline (Mears) Hunter. His mother was born in Indiana, and his father in county Antrim, Ireland. Two years after William’s birth, the family came to Butler county, Iowa, and settled in Ripley township, where his parents still reside. William grew up on his father’s farm, attending school during the winters, until seventeen years old. He then attended the Iowa City Academy seven months, and afterwards Lennox College, at Hopkinton, Iowa, fall and winter, for three years. He taught his first term of school at Pine Creek, Buchanan county, Iowa, at a salary of $28.00 per month; also, a term near Zwingle, Dubuque county. This was during the years he attended college.
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Mr. Hunter has taught twenty-five terms to the present time, filling the position in the towns of Butler Center, Aplington, Shell Rock and New Hartford. In the spring of 1881 he became principal of the New Hartford school, filling that position with great credit. In 1882 he was the republican nominee for recorder, and was elected. April 22, 1878, he was married to Miss Alice Conn, who was born in Canada. They have one child living – Willie G. Mr. Hunter is popular wherever known, and there doubtless is a bright future before him.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page: 475