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Hiram Paine Hunt

Gender:
Male
Born:
May 23, 1796
Died:
1865
Home Town:
Pittstown, NY
Later Residences:
Troy, NY
Marriage(s):
Anne Ayre Lane (unknown)
Biographical Notes:
[No info on Brickley disk, all info taken from Fisher] Hiram Hunt was the son of Hiram and Phebe [Paine] Hunt. He practiced law in Troy, NY.
Education
Years at LLS:
1817
Other Education:
Attended Union College in 1816.
Profession / Service
Profession:
Lawyer; Political Office
Admitted To Bar:
1820 Litchfield County Court
Political Party:
Anti-Jacksonian; Whig
Federal Posts:
U.S. Representative (NY) 1834-1836, 1839-1842
Local Posts:
Clerk of the Town of Pittstown (Pittstown, NY) 1822
Related Objects and Documents
Other:
Litchfield County, Litchfield County Court Papers by Subject: Admissions to the Bar
Johnson family papers, 1722-1863
help The Citation of Attendance provides primary source documentation of the student’s attendance at the Litchfield Female Academy and/or the Litchfield Law School. If a citation is absent, the student is thought to have attended but currently lacks primary source confirmation.

Records for the schools were sporadic, especially in the formative years of both institutions. If instructors kept comprehensive records for the Litchfield Female Academy or the Litchfield Law School, they do not survive. Researchers and staff have identified students through letters, diaries, family histories and genealogies, and town histories as well as catalogues of students printed in various years. Art and needlework have provided further identification of Female Academy Students, and Litchfield County Bar records document a number of Law School students. The history of both schools and the identification of the students who attended them owe credit to the early 20th century research and documentation efforts of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel and Samuel Fisher, and the late 20th century research and documentation efforts of Lynne Templeton Brickley and the Litchfield Historical Society staff.
CITATION OF ATTENDANCE:
Houghton, Josiah. "LLS Law Notebook 1817-1818." Litchfield Law School Collection, Series 1, Subseries 1, Litchfield Historical Society. Available online at https://archive.org/stream/35102011793091#page/n11/mode/2up.

Handwritten list by William Samuel Johnson, "Catalogue of the Students at Law in the school at Litchfield Conn. at & after Aug

Litchfield County Bar Association Records, 1816, Helga J. Ingraham Memorial Library, Litchfield Historical Society
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