Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Hunter, Matthew S. May 3, 1834 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

MATTHEW S. HUNTER, 
one of the most prominent business men in Hollidaysburg, who receives many
large building contracts in the eastern part of the State, is a son of Andrew
J. and Elizabeth (Simpson) Hunter, and was born at Coleraine Forges,
Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, May 3, 1834. The paternal grandfather of Mr.
Hunter was a cousin of Governor Porter, and was born and reared in Huntingdon
county, where he died. He owned a large tract of land in the vicinity of
Coleraine Forges. He was a whig in politics and a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church. He married a Miss Montgomery, a relative of General
Montgomery, who fell before Quebec in the revolutionary war. The maternal
grandfather of the subject of this sketch crossed the Atlantic as a soldier
under General Braddock, and was taken captive at the ill-fated battle of the
Monongahela by the Indians, but made his escape through the friendship of one
of the red warriors. He remained in America, and served as a soldier in the
Continental army during the revolutionary war. Andrew J. Hunter (father) was
born at Sligo Forges, Huntingdon county, and in 1853 removed to
Hollidaysburg, where he died in 1865. By trade he was an engineer and pattern
maker. In politics he was at first a whig, afterward a republican, and was a
faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1826 he married
Elizabeth Simpson, and to their union were born one son and six daughters.
   Matthew S. Hunter received his education in the common schools, learned the
trade of pattern maker, which he followed until 1885, when he built the
planing mill which he now operates at Hollidaysburg. He contracts for all
kinds of house building, and does a great deal of special work for many
different firms in the eastern part of the State. At the beginning of the
civil war he enlisted in Co. A, 3rd Pennsylvania infantry, and served for a
term of three months.
On May 7, 1862, Mr. Hunter married Ellen Barr, and to their union have been
born three sons and four daughters: Frank, a partner in the planing mill
business at Hollidaysburg with his father, married Ollie Miller; John B.,
married Nancy Gardner, and is also a resident of Hollidaysburg; Ralph, a
resident of the same place, married Clara Smith; Irene, Harietta, May E., and
Ella C.
   Politically Matthew S. Hunter is a republican, although at local elections
he is inclined to be rather independent, and supports the best qualified
candidate, irrespective of party. He was formerly a Free Mason, and in all of
his business transactions he has earned the reputation of being a fair and
honest man.

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Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Barb Griffin  griffibf@email.uc.edu

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