Huntting, Benjamin 1833 – 1896

HUNTTING, THOMAS

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Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:23

Iowa Plain Dealer July 7, 1896, FP, C4

Benjamin Huntting Dead.
Benjamin Huntting, one of the trueest,{sic} best and most honorable of God’s creation, died at his home in Cresco, Tuesday morning, July 7th. Everybody in Howard county knew the man and honored him for his integrity and uprightness. A proper tribute to the man and his memory will be given hereafter.

Iowa Plain Dealer July 10, 1896, FP, C5

Tuesday morning the sad duty of announcing the death of Benjamin Huntting, devolved upon the Plain Dealer. It is entirely befitting that something more than that brief announcement be said of the man. He was born at Southampton, Long Island, December 4, 1833, his age being at the time of his death 62 years 7 months and 3 days.
Whe{sic} 16 years of age he went upon a cruise in the Northern Seas upon a whaler, coming to Iowa some time during the 50's. He made an overland trip to the gold regions of California, and later to the gold region of Colorado and Montana. At the breaking out of the civil war in 1861, he enlisted at McGregor, in company C., 3rd Iowa Infantry; was in the battle of Blue Mills, Missouri, at which he was wounded, resulting in the loss of an arm, and was honorable discharge from the army.
In January 1866, at Eagle, Wisconsin, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Thomas, who with three children born to them survive him, one, a daughter, having died some two or three years since. The surviving are William F., Mary Louise and Frank.
With the opening of the railroad to Cresco, he came here representing the great wheat purchasing house of Bassett, Huntting & Co., upon our market as long as that firm was in existence, and for his business integrity was a favorite among those patronizing the Cresco market. Every person who came to this market recognized the fact that a contract of sale with him meant that however much the price of the article sold might decline, the article contracted for would be received and paid for at the stipulated price without a murmur.
For two years or more he has been been{sic} in failing health, compelling him to retire from the market something more than a year since. His visits to this office were frequent during his long illness, and often did he allude to his physical condition and his expected exit from life, remarking some two weeks since while in the office that some morning he might awaken with the great majority on the other side. What he anticipated became the reality. On the morning of June 7th Mrs. Huntting found him breathing his last as though peacefully falling to rest in sleep without a struggle.
He died universally honored, loved and respected for his noble traits of life and character, those who mourn him being sincere in their grief.

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