The Portland daily press., 1894-12-01
oBIT UARY.
Henry lei. Hunt, NJ. ID.

Henry Hastings Hunt who died at his
residence in this city yesterday morning.
was born in ham on the 7th OF july
1912. Hc fitted for college at the academy
OF his nativestown, and at 16,yearssotage en-
tered Bowdoin, where he graduated IN loo@
with high honors. he Immediately eplls(eu
in the Fifth Maine Battery of Light Artli-
ley in which his brother, DR.. Charles v.
Hunt, NOW and for many years past, Iesl-
dent physician and superintendent OF the
Maine General HospitaQ was lieutenant,
and served continuously until the close OIL
the War of the Rebellion. After pursuing
the study of medicine in the Portland
School for Medical Instruction and in the
Medical School of Maine, he received the
doctorate in 1867, and then spent year IN
Philadelphia, taking special courses In
various branches. II 1868 he established
himself in practice in Gorham. were he
quickly achieved the marked success TO
which his Intellectual and moral endow-
ments entitled him. He was unspaI1ng OF
h imself in his devotion to his patients. ana
impaired his health by overwork. Realizing
the necessity of diminishing the strain to
which he had been 60 long subjected by the
exactions of country doctors lie, ne
moved to this city twelve years ago, ana
,oo1
soon built up very large practice. In 1854
he was elected to the chair of physiology III
Boudoin college but resigned lp 1871 on
&C count of i'll health. He was fellow OF
the American Academy of Medicine, and
member of the Maine Medical Association,
the Grand Army of the Republic, the State
street church, the Masonic Fraternity, ana
various other organizations. For more than
a decade he was one of the visiting
physicians to the Maine General nosp',a'.
In 1887 he married MISS 1er1ruae 'e"e'' VI
Buffalo. n. Y, who survives MN.
DR.. Hunt was a type OF the pest CLASS VI
physicians. His studious habits, ms tlreiess
patience and his acuteness OF opserVa'loh'
combined with native ability OF high oroeE
and rare constientiousness in the discharge
of every duty. resulted in his becoming
practitioner Of great learning ana ~lueiy
acknowledged skill. His counsel was constant
ly sought, ana was always pri%eu' AHousn
ne was very quiec anu 'a"'
was MOI d feser So 'n"c -
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pathy' re" men na'o W Inc -
giit ol inspiring cohnueneo, NM
deserved such u rust more l'onis tnan
old aho.souhg aiiAe piaoeu inlpiioA' A"i',i -
MS uhs"ei wing ihlegiilS' anu saw
their aoihii ation anu wv o Voc
esteeheo as d WISE ph' s.eian ~ a.
knew hiIh' Out no parC Vi MS iane ""e "on
py MS own pupiioa'ioh vi nie
ments. Even 10 ms lew intilna.es he was
1etlcent ABOUT ms successes anu nc "@s ~
genulhely INQUEST tha' liz "ouiu no' oi. %,
pe pefsuaoeo ~ aooeps poe''nS ~
Wouiu prihs MN my pfoAinenoe,
lhaI otAefs were .noio "oi'n9 ~
tihctioh. rIoih this reluo'ahoo ~ H"S
suited that ms cohir'outiohs 70 iheuisai
literature nay 9 peen rev. Dut anthe Articles
which ne mas peen ihauceo 10 write uispias
sucn mastery Oh theil suojec's anu sum
taste ana Skill OF authorship as ~ ausine LIZ
the regret tna1 no "iu ~. i'oio
oemonstlate LIB cap" - us
tlon.
For several years DR.. Hunt has been
aware that he was the victim OF an 1ns1dlous
and mortal disease. which was occasioned
by an injury to the spinal core. received IN
an accident long before. In spite of his
suffering. which was often intense. he Kept
travely about his work. never neglectlng
the smallest detail, or offering his distress
fas he might have done legltlmately) as
reason for the avoidance OF any demand
which his practice made upon INN. IL was
not until the past summer, when he found
that his Elalady had SO drained MS strength,
4 1,+ h. hop w Ianr nm n nor