Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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JASEN ZIBA HUNT

Jasen Ziba HUNT (deceased), came to Harrison County from Edinburg, Saratoga County, New York, during the month of May, 1850, and located a claim that season on section 13, Jefferson Township, the same consisting of eighty acres, to which he has added from time to time, making his entire farm two hundred and ninety-two acres. He lived on his first claim ten years, then moved to his present farm on section 12, living in a small frame building for one year, during which time he erected a brick house in which he has lived, which was probably the second brick house built in the county. He and a hired man burned the brick.

Mr. HUNT was born in Saratoga County, N.Y., February 20, 1822, and is the son of Walter and Susan (DEMING) HUNT. The date of his death was September 30, 1891.

Capt. Ziba HUNT, grandfather of our subject, was born in Connecticut January 4, 1746, and died September 10, 1820, at North Hampton, N.Y.

His wife was Joanna BLOUNT, whom he married in early life, rearing a family of thirteen children.

Walter HUNT, the father of our subject, was born September 24, 1782, at Stephentown, N.Y., and married Susanna DEMING at Edinburg, N.Y., December 5, 1802, and died at Edinburg March 23, 1863, his wife dying at the same place in the month of October, 1872. They reared a family of ten children, as follows: Amos, Joanna, Isaac, Betsy, Sallie, George Washington, William W., Jason Ziba, Amanda M., Alonzo R.

Our subject and his wife were the parents of a family of six children; Camilla S., born July 6, 1849; Livy M., April 25, 1852; Hattie M., June 12, 1855; Orville B., Sept 18, 1857, (died Sept 16, 1862); Mary E., born February 15, 1861; Charles W., Jan 2, 1864.

Mr. HUNT taught school in what is now Cass Township in 1852 a part of a term, the remainder of which was finished by Stephen KING, the same being the pioneer school of the township. In 1851, Mr. HUNT taught two months in Council Bluffs (Kanesville).

To learn something of the earlier life of our subject, we will ask the reader to trace his steps from the State of New York, by railroad to Buffalo, then to Cincinnati down the Ohio River, up the Mississippi River to St. Louis, thence up the Missouri to St. Joe, then by wagon to Harrison County, remembering that he had attended school at Fairfield, Herkimer County, N.Y., from 1844 to 1846, where he studied civil engineering, of which he made much use after coming West.

In speaking of early days, he states that three times he had to walk to Council Bluffs, once for an axe, having broken the one he had, and was unable to proceed with his work without this trip. When one considers that Mr. HUNT had but seventy-five cents upon arriving in Iowa, and that at his death he was a prosperous farmer, it will be understood that his had been a life of toil and good management.

Politically, Mr. HUNT voted with the Republican party. In their religious convictions, Mr. and Mrs. HUNT were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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