[p. 435] a prominent physician and surgeon of Rose Point, enjoys a very extensive practice throughout Lawrence and Butler Counties. He was born in the former county, March 20, 1867, and is a son of Abraham and Mary Jane (Houk) Hunt, and grandson of William William Hunt.
William Hunt was born in Lawrence County, and was at one time quite a large landowner there. He owned the farm now known as the J. M. Hunt place, which he sold and then purchased a large tract in Butler County, near the old stone house, where he and his wife died in advanced age. They were parents of the following children: Samuel, Abraham, William, Hiram, Elizabeth, Mary, Linda, and Celesta.
William Hunt was born in Lawrence County and was educated in the district schools of his home community. At an early age he learned blacksmithing, and followed his trade at various places in Lawrence and Butler Counties. He finally purchased a farm in Butler County, on which he lived some years, then sold out and purchased another tract about one mile east of Slippery Rock, where he lived at his death. He married Mary Jane Houk, a daughter of Philip Houk of Lawrence County, and they had six children: the oldest died unnamed; Caroline G., deceased, was the wife of J. W. Douthett, by whom she had two children, Edith and Blanche; Dr. James L., a physician of Meadville, married Amy Patterson, a daughter of Dr. A. M. Patterson of Slippery Rock; J. C., who married Margaret Culbertson, by whom he had a son, Paul; Dr. C. B. Hunt, and Dr. C. W., a dentist of Oregon, Illinois, who first married Bessie McCracken, by whom he had two children, Claire and Floyd. His second marriage was with Margaret Fiedler, and they have one child.
C. B. Hunt received an elementary training in the common schools of Butler County, supplemented by course in Sunbury Academy, and Grove City College. He then began his preparation for the medical profession by attending lectures in the Baltimore Medical College. He subsequently graduated at the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia. and pursued a post graduate course in the Post Graduate College of New York. He completed a special course on the eye in the New York Polyclinic and Post Graduate College. Dr. Hunt first embarked in practice at Princeton, Lawrence County, where he continued four years, then moved to Butler, Butler County. He practiced there four years and later was employed as commercial traveler for an optical firm. In 1901, he located at Rose Point, where he has since practiced continuously. Having kept abreast of the rapid strides made in medical science, he has met with success in the treatment of even the most complicated cases, and established an enviable prestige in Lawrence and Butler Counties, from which his large practice is drawn.
Dr. Hunt married Miss Lydia A. Grossman, daughter of Hugh and Mary Grossman of Butler County, and they have one son, Crede B., who is in attendance at High School. Politically, the Doctor is a Republican. In religious attachment he is a member of the Presbyterian Church of Princeton.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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