The Cordova daily times., 1917-01-25
SUN FOLLOWS IN FOOTSTEPS OF
 FATHER

It IS somewhat rare occurrence TOT a father and son to attain distinc. ton in the same line of business. By strange coincidence such as the case or captain J. C. Hunter, of Seattle, commanding the Alaska Steamship 'ompany's well known vessel North western, who is probably the oldest master on this coast, and his son, Cap. tam A. T. Hunter. who is master of the fast turbiner Northern Pacific, of the Great Northern Pacific Steamship CO.,, who is the youngest mariner on 'he Pacific having charge of so pala- ual scagoing craft. This then is to De a short story of these two well known mariners, who are known by many and whose joint history might be termed a recital of shipping on this coast from 1869.
 Nearly every regular passenger tc and from Alaska knows and likes Cap tain Hunter of the Northwestern, and many there are who select that vessel on account of her master. Bluff, hale and hearty, at the age of seventy-two ne IS still as young as the rest of them when on the bridge, and while he is always attending strictly to business, children and women travelling back and forth on his vessel are invariably accorded most respectful and cour- teous attention and their safety and comfort is his constant thought.
 James Conrad Hunter was born at Halmstad, Sweden, in 1S43. At the age of sixteen, after completing his course in the Latin school, he shipped from Halmstad iii the year 1859, in ship of his native country, and remained in her service until the fall of 1862 Then he left his native town and moved to Copenhagen, where he sailed in Danish vessels from 1862 to 1864. He left Copenhagen in 1865 in Dutch vessel, one of the ships that had been seized in the Danish war. He went to London as an ordinary seaman at eleven Danish dollars per month, and left the vessel while she was lying in the Thames, and from sailors board ing house few weeks later shipped in an American sailing vessel bound for the East Indies. by way of Alden and Calcutta, and eventually reaching New York. The vessel having been dismasted and in need of repair, the crew was paid off and he shipped in to Cienfuego. returning to New York, when he reshipped in the same vessel in which he had sailed from London, then making a round trip to England and back to New York via Bombay, coming back to this country as third mate in the year 1867.
 In 1868 he sailed for the Pacific coast, coming around the Horn to Portland Oregon, arriving there in 1869. The vessel was sold in Port land and the crew paid off In that same year Captain Hunter began his steamship career by accepting the position of third officer on the s. s. Continental operating between San Francisco and Portland, and has been Tn the steamship service ever since.
 He was with the old Ben Holiday Line. It was sold out to the Goodall. Nelson crowd and later became the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. He was with them from 1871 to 1898. In the latter year he became master of the City of Seattle, of the then Peabody Line, and through all the various changes in ownership remained witt that company or it's successors up t( the present Alaska Steamship Com pany, having commanded such vessel. as the Dolphin, Dirigo, Farralone, La touche. Northwestern and Cordova
 It was in 1880 that GOOdall, Perkin. X Co. gave him command of his frs ship. It was the old Salinas and i helped to make history on the coast
 While he was regularly employed by Goodall. Perkins X Co.,, the Pacific Mail requested the first mentioned firm to loan them third officer and temporarily Captain Hunter wen with the famous transpacific com pany for three years, on the City o Panama and the well known side wheelers China. Alaska and Dakota operating both on the Panama rout and the Japan-Chi mail route.
 He was one of the very earlies navigators in the Alaska service, an in 1883, at time when there wer practically no charts and nothing a all in the way of aids to navigation he took the old Eureka to Alaska. A ter leavink Sitka, although there wa rock and the ship began to fill. Tn vessel was successfully run ashor and all passengers and crew wer saved. They were there six month
 working to get the vessel in shap and with the aid of salvage ere
 from San Francisco, the vessel wa successfully taken back to her hon port.
 In binding snOwstorm in Cook i
 let in 1909 the old Farralone met h'
 fate, and the story of her wreck ar