Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-06
Mr.. and MRS, LuNT
QUIETLY OBSERVE
60TH ANNIVERSARY

Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick D. Lunt
OF this city quietly observed their
00th anniversary of marriage Sat
urday at their home on upper Coll
eye avenue. During the day many
neighbors and friends called at the
house to wish them well and to con-
graduate them on their long happy
married life.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lunt were married
In Biddelord on October 4, 1864. A
week before their marriage Mr.. Lunt
had enlisted as a blacksmith in the
Second Maine Cavalry. but he OBJ
tanned short furlough and returned
for the wedding before going south.
Mr.. Lunt was born in Biddeford
February 10, 1S45. the son of Cyrus
X. and Harriet (Graves) Lunt. Mrs.
Lunt. VINO was formerly Miss Mary
Isabel Chapman, was born Novem-
Der IL. 1886. the daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Chapman of Bidce-
ford. Four children were born to
the couple, two OF whom are living:
Mrs. Arthur l.. Holmes and Wilbur
Z. Lunt. both of this city. They al
so nave two grand children, Fred
erick b. and Geraldine Lunt. Mr.
Lunt Is the last living member of his
A"'''S pab lsuII Has several SIS
ters and one brother. as follows: Mrs.
owe Guiot OF Brunswick. Mrs. Fran
cena Lowell and Mrs. Emma Turck
of Maiden Mass, Mrs. Frank Little
neld OF Ogunquit and Daniel Chap
man of Maiden, Mass.
MIR. Lunt was educated in the Bid
deford public schools and he learned
the trade of blacksmithing with his
father who carried on a shop in Bid
deford. Later he went to Springfield.
Mass. where he was employed in the
biacksmithing department of the
Springfield Rife Mandatory.
when he was 10 years old he en-
listed as blacksmith in the Second
Maine Cavalry and was with what
was designated as the Gulf Depart
ment of the army.
The climate of the south affected
MIR. Lunt's health, the malaria hav-
Ing laid hold of him and reduced him
10 a mere 100 pounds in weight. 1t
was year after he came out of the
service before he recovered his health
and he began working again at his
trade. first in Biddeford and late in
Lewiston in the Lewiston Machine
Co.'S shops. He next went to Farm
ington where he entered the employ
OF the Maine Central Railroad in the
car shops there. When the shops
moved to Waterville in 1874 Mr.. Lunt
came along with his job and has lived
here ever since, so years this year.
He has nothing but words of great
est praise for the company in whose
employ he spent so many years. He
said that they had always used him
, tine and lie had given his best to
them.
For AZ years he was in the en-
ploy of the Maine Central Railroad,
retiring from active labor on June 80,
1921. For "a of those years he was
foreman.
In speaking OF his marriage day,
Mr.. Lunt said that he went to the
stable of N. o. Kendall, n livery man
In Biddeford and hired the best rig
there was to be had. This was a
two-wheeled chaise and a good horse.
Taking his bride-to-be they drove
around the town and over to Dayton,
matter of six miles. On their re-
turn they drove to the home of the
minister. Rev. Charles Morse and
were married. Ten years ago on the
invitation Of Mr.. Lunt's brother in
law. Carlos Head. Mr.. and Mrs.
Lunt. on the occasion of the golden
wedding anniversary. rode over the
same course they had taken half a
century before in Mr.. Heald's au-
tomobile.
Mr.. Lunt Is an active member of
the w. S. Heath Post, Grand Army
of the Republic and for the past eight
years has been its commander. He
also had held the Office previously
during his long membership.