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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904 1 1 Browse Search
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Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, M. Agnes Hunt. (search)
M. Agnes Hunt. By Anna Parker Vinal. M. Agnes Hunt, a member of this society, was born in Southampton, N. Y., in 1839, and died in Somerville November 24, 1903. Her father, Rev. Samuel Hunt, preached for many years in Franklin, Mass.; he was one of the Abolitionists, and for upholding the cause of the negro was dismissed by his parish. From him and her grandfather, who gave money to found Amherst College, she inherited her strong patriotism; this enabled her as a young girl to send the money given her for a long-coveted black silk dress to the Sanitary Commission when they called for funds during the Civil War. She was educated in the district and select schools of Franklin, the English and Classical School of Walpole, Mass., and at Ipswich Female Seminary; she excelled in mathematics. At the age of twenty-two she was called upon to manage her father's household, and also to attend to the duties in parish work devolving upon the minister's wife, with the result that he