The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-27


ness, at the age of seventy years.
at his home at No. 1888 Harrison street.
DR.. Huntoon was city treasurer of To-
peka for one year following his election
TO that Of1ce in 1867. He was a mem
Der of the city council, having been
elected from the Fourth ward August
10, 1874, to fill a vacancy. He served
until 1876. He was also later appointed
to be city assessor. which position he
held for a number of years. Later he
was elected to be county treasurer for
the years 1884 to 1886. He was a mem
Der of the Topeka city board of educa-
ton for several years.
DR.. Huntoon was the father of a fam
lily of four children Only one child is
living, Mrs. Julia Pounds, wife of Thos
Z. Pounds, mine owner of Joplin, Mo.
He has a brother living, Col. George
Huntoon of No. 219 Huntoon street
Charles Foster was a brother-in-law
DR.. HuntOon'S wife, and Mr. Foster
were brother and sister.
Dr. HuntoOn had charge of the state
auditors office under J. R. Swallow dur
ing the four years from 1865 to 1869.
The funeral services will be held ct
the residence 1888 Harrison street Thurs
day afternoon at O'clock.
Dr. HuntOOn was one Of twins. the
twins being boy and a girl. They were
born on the 18th of February, 1882, leap
year, therefore having a birthday only
once every four years.
The United States Biographical die
tionary gives the following account of
his life:
Andrew Jackson Huntoon was born
in the town of Unity. Sullivan county
New Hampshire, February %, 1882. His
father Lemuel HuntoOn, was a native
of the same town. married Sibyl
Palmer of LangdOn in the same cOun-
ty, and spent his life in his native place
Andrew was educated in the COM
mon schools at Unity until he was pre-
pared to enter the academy of Alstead,
and upon leaving that institution pur-
sued his studies at Unity and Newport
At the age Of Il years he went to Law
renceVille. KiOwa county, Pa, where he
taught school. It is said he was an ex-
cellent teacher although but IA years of
age. His teaching yielded him the
funds to pursue his medical studies
I'm the spring of 1851 he entered the
Office of DR.. L. J. Graves Of LangdOn,
with whom he studied three years. at
tending in the meantime, two courses of
medical lectures at Vermont university
Woodstock, Vermont, and two at the
Dartmouth Medical college, Hanover
New Hampshire, from which institution
he graduated in the fall of 1888. at the
age OF q years. The following year he
praeticed medicine at Bellows Falls,
Vermont, and then started for the west.
but stopping at Williamsport, Pa, 10
visit a brother, he was persuaded to re-
main there, and opened a drug and book
store, Which he kept for two and one
half years He had for his partner in
/. that business no other than the we'll
known Bishop Bowman of the Methodist
church Bishop Bowman is a superar-
nuated bishop and is now residing at st.
Louis.
Early In the spring of 1865 he became
interested in the Kansas agitation, read
all he could gather concerning the dis
puted territory; watched with growing
concern the policy of the general gov
eminent and carefully studied both
sides of the vexed question. Years 1856
and 1857 only increased the public fer
ment, and intensified Mr. HuntoOn' s
interest in Kansas. AS the policy of the
administration unfolded and the par
tisanship of the government became ap-
parent he saw the wrong that was
meditated a struggling people and
his own political sentiments underwent
a radical change Born in q Den ocratic
family; nurtured in Democratic prin-
ciples christened with the name of its
leader. Andrew Jackson Huntoon was
an ardent Democrat; but the atten pit
a people opposed to it from principle as
well as from every consideration of in
terest reused all his Indignation. his
sympathies went over to the Free State
party and he determined to do what he
could to prevent the ingress Of slavery.
Broken from his old mOOrings, facts be-
gan to assume a new signincation, the
more he read and reflected, the more
radical he grew, there was no middle
ground, and he soon ebcame an out
spoken, ardent abolitionist In this as
in all else, he was ightforward
direct and positive. To determine was to