Hunt's boyhood sweetheart and the only girl or woman he was ever known to> have any interest in. He was engaged to her prior to coming to Nebraska. Air. Congdon said to me, and no one knows whereof he spoke better than he : "As a wife and mother she has been without a superior and she shows to best advantage through close acquaintance." They had three children, Harriet, Julia and Frank. All three were married at the time of Mr. Hunt's death. All three were born in Omaha.

Like all other men who came in early days to what had formerly been the great western desert, Mr. Hunt had many long and great difficulties to contend with. In all of the years his courage never failed him, nor did he ever lose his faith in himself or abandon the thought that he would eventually work

his financial life's problems so that when the time came that he should be called hence, if he should leave his boyhood sweetheart behind him, he would leave her provided for. He was not a selfish man, he did not toil in season and out of season simply to accumulate wealth for wealth's sake, but it seemed to me as I know him and have talked with him, and I get the same word from Mr. Congdon, that the thought uppermost in his mind always was for the Maryland girl who came west with him to share the dangers and privations of western life and remained his loving and faithful wife during all the years. One consolation in this sad hour is that she could be with him in his last moments, and that when he was called a\vay he has left her provided for, so that if he had time to think over the matter in his last moments he left us with the assurance that the ultimate purpose of his life was about to be accomplished.