Robert M. Hunt

Immediately upon graduation, in 1850, he decided to go to California via the Isthmus of Panama, and upon arriving in California, he headed for the mines on an ox team from Sacramento to Nevada City, arriving about May 1, 1850. He was engaged in mining and lumbering for about two years, and then went into the drug store business. Since 1853, Hunt was in active practice. He was county physician from 1859, superintending the management of the Nevada County Hospital. During his long years of service he "officiated" at 2,800 cases of confinement.

Hunt was married to Jennie Briggs whose sister, Susie, married Thomas Bard McFarland, also of Nevada City; McFarland was associate justice of the Supreme Court of California. Hunt was a director of Citizens Bank,^[1] and a member of the Freemasons.^[4] After he died at Nevada City, in 1902, his ashes were returned to Utica, and placed in the family vault.^[3]

• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Lewis Publishing Company's "A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California: Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the Earliest Period of Its Occupancy to the Present Time" (1891)
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Freemasons. Grand Lodge of California's "Proceedings of the M [three Dots in Triangular Formation̈ W [three Dots in Triangular Formation̈ Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of California at Its Annual Communication" (1899)
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Albany, N.Y.'s "Albany medical annals. Albany, N.Y." (1902)