DR. J. W. HUNSTED
Dr. J. W. Hunsted, a leading physician of Griswold, was born in Iowa City, Johnson county, Iowa, on the 5th day of May, 1849. At the age of fifteen he entered the Iowa State University, where he remained three years. In 1869 he was in the employ of the government, with a surveying party in the west. In the fall and winter of 1870-71, he taught school in the south, and while there began reading medicine in the office of Dr. James F. Leath, formerly of Memphis. In 1872 he entered the office of Dr. J. H. Baucher, of Iowa City, and at the same time attended lectures in the medical department of the Iowa State University, from which he graduated in March, 1873. He then began practicing at Tiffin, Iowa, where he remained one year, when he came to Pottawattamie county, Iowa, settling in Waveland, where he practiced ten years, and in the meantime improved a farm of 640 acres. He came to Griswold in the spring of 1884, and opened an office for practice. Dr. Hunsted was married in 1876 to Eva L. P. Thorn, a daughter of Graham and Laura (Bailey) Thorn, natives of New York. They have three children--Nellie M., Bessie M., Samuel B.
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. 404-405.
