The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1927-04-22

rev men IN this section OF the state /
were better known. The doctor was /
the youngest son of a family Of II
children of Mr.. and Mrs. John Hun
ter Of Virginia. John Hunter was a
lineal descendant of POchahontas. The
subject of this sketch was born in
Virginia in 1915, shortly after the
battle Of New Orleans, and hence
was named Andrew Jackson. His
parents moved to Kentucky in 1913
and Cassius M. Clay, who proved to
be a warm friend of the doctor in
later years, lived nearby.
Andrew J. worked on his fathers
farm until about IL years of age,
when he entered school. Two years
later he began the study Of medicine
at BoOnville, KY. He began practice
in Louisiana and some years later re-
turned to Kentucky and married Miss
PhilpOtt.
In 1865 he was engaged as surgeon
for the Illinois Central railroad. The
year following he moved to Missouri,
where he followed his profession.
Having previously lost his wife, he
married Miss Susan G.. Murray. He
enjoyed a lucrative practice in Mis-
souri, up to the breaking out of the
Rebellion. DR.. Hunter was a Union
man, but being in the South en-
tered the Confederate army as a sur
geOn and was at the battle of Pea
Ridge. After that he went to Il
linOis, where he sold goods. When
his stock was disposed of, he started
for what is now Montana, Their Ida
no. That was in 1854. Crossing the
plains with his wife and three chill
dren, he arrived in BOzeman as the
foundation of the first building was
being laid. He passed on to Virginia
City, practiced medicine there a short
time and then went to Helena, theT
r a settlement Of eight houses. There
} he was prominently connected with
the Vigilance committee.
In the fall of 1866 he went to Dia.
? mOnd City and in the year following
. to New York gulch. He was probate
!, judge of Meagher county and, aftel
= one years service, resigned AMI
moved to the Canyon House in thu
k county, where he practiced medicine
t In the first part of December, 1863
{ he settled in BoZeman, where he RAJ
a drug store, was county physician o
Gallatin county and contract surgeon
at Fort Ellis to fill a vacancy.
In February, 1870, he erected
house at what is now we'll known a
Hunters Hot Springs, and the sam
year cultivated Is acres of lane
Here he encountered attacks from tn
d Indians, as is the usual experienc
of settlers on the frontier.
1t Tn 1877 he was physician at tn
is Crow Agency, which position he hel
for n year. In the meantime tn
United States land T was e1
re tended to the springs and the doctC
~ had to return and file on his CLAIM
in His claim to the land was conteste
a by the Northern Pacific, but was fiji
e, ally decided in his favor. He sol
his interests at Hunters Hot Spring
s. some years ago for a valuable col
o. ~sideration and had since made h
O; home in this city.
I'd Surviving the doctor are a so
Samuel J. Hunter, a prominent judl
in Texas, and a daughter, Ardell, ?
D. siding in Indiana, both children /
q his first wife, and a son, Davis
&C. Hunter, Of Butte and three daughter
If Mary Lee, now Mrs. Doane, widow
as Captain G. G. Doane of the Unit
Id States army; Lizzie Kate LongstreC
of now Mrs. Franklin w. Rich, wife
of the supervisor of the county DO
farm, and Sallie Price, wife of Har
at- James of this city, children by /
IN second marriage. Another son, Thor
tai as StOnewall Jackson Hunter, W
be drowned in the Yellowstone July
no 1875.