Biography of Lester C. Hunt, page 994.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Lester C. Hunt, engineer, in the employ of the Wabash Railway, at Butler, 
Ind., was born in Huntsville, Litchfield Co., Conn., Feb. 4, 1848, a son of 
Chauncey Hunt, a native of the same county.  In 1855 his parents moved to 
Bristol, Ill., and there he was reared and educated in the common schools.  
In 1865 he returned to Connecticut and began to work on the Housatonic 
Railway at Bridgeport, remaining there nineteen years.  He began on the road 
as brakeman, and from that was advanced to baggage-master, fireman, station 
agent, conductor and engineer.  In 1881 he came to Butler, Ind., and entered 
the employ of the Wabash Railroad, a position he has since occupied.  Mr. 
Hunt was married Jan. 18, 1882, to Amarett Crosley, a daughter of Thomas 
Crosley.  They have two children---Rutheda and Jennie.  Mr. Hunt is a member 
of the Brotherhood of Engineers.

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