REV. THOS. K. HUNTER
Rev. Thomas K. Hunter, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, is a native of Ashland county, Ohio, and was born November 13, 1852. He is the son of James and Catharine (McKlorin) Hunter, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio. They now reside in Montgomery county, Iowa. The subject of this sketch was reared upon a farm, and was educated at the academy at Hayesville, under the directory of Rev. Sander Diefendorf, D. D. In the summer of 1880 he attended the Theological Presbyterian institute, of Danville, Kentucky, where he graduated in the spring of 1883. The first Sabbath in June, 1883, he commenced his pastoral work in Griswold, and has continued to fill the pulpit. On October 19, 1882, he was married in Ashland county, Ohio, to Gertrude Stevens, a daughter of W. W. Stevens. They have had one child born to them, Stewart M.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 419.
