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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

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           ALONZO HUNTER, proprietor and manager of the Huron House, Sand
        Beach, was born Nov. 3, 1845, in Ameliasburg, Prince Edward Co.,
        Ont. His parents, DAVID and PHILEAN (TAFT) HUNTER, removed to the
        township of Sanilac, in the county of the same name, in 1863, where
        they are still living, on a farm of 110 acres. The mother was born
        Nov. 3, 1825, her son's birthday occurring on the same day of the
        month, 20 years later.
           In the year following the settlement of his parents in Sanilac
        County, MR. HUNTER came to Rock Falls in the township of Sand
        Beach. He became an assistant in the saw-mill of PACK, JENKS & Co.,
        remaining in their employ about 15 years. His next engagement was
        as sawyer for WOODS & Co., at Port Crescent, in whose interests he
        operated one year. He afterward bought the Exchange Hotel at Port
        Sanilac, which he sold after a management of one year. He was in
        the employment of the United States Government through three years
        following, and, meanwhile, in the summer of 1882, he built the
        hotel which he is now conducting. The structure is 28 x 60 feet in
        size, with two wings. Although small, the house is a good one, and
        is generously patronized by the traveling public.  MR. HUNTER is a
        member of Port Hope Lodge, No. 138, Order of Masonry.
           His marriage occurred April 5, 1875, at Rock Falls, to EDNA C.
        PRIEST.  HATTIE, only child, was born at Sand Beach, Dec. 13, 1879.
        The parents of MRS. HUNTER, DAVID N. and HARRIET PRIEST, reside at
        Sand Beach.
           SOCRATES HUNTER, the paternal grandsire of MR. ALONZO HUNTER,
        died at the age of 103 years, in New Salem, London District, Ont.
           During the period of his active life as a lumber man, MR. HUNTER
        experienced a narrow escape from a terrible death. He had occasion
        to break a rollway of logs, and before he could extricate himself
        he was thrown and four large logs passed over his body, crushing
        him into the earth. The bystanders believed him dead, but he only
        sustained slight injuries comparatively, no bones being broken. His
        nose was fractured and mutilated, and one eye was injured; the skin
        was also abraded from various parts of his body. At another time he
        and a companion were passing the night at the TYSON House at Manis-
        tee, when it burned. He, with a number of others, were on the third
        floor of the building and he was the only one who escaped uninjur-
        ed. He made a rope of the bed-clothes and lowered himself a part of
        the distance, when he was rescued by those below. He saved only his
        hat and trowsers, leaving the rest of his clothing, including his
        watch and money. His companion leaped from the window and was hope-
        lessly crippled.

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