Elisha Hunt (steamboat pioneer)

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Elisha Hunt
Elisha Hunt.jpg
BornOctober 7, 1779
Moorestown, Burlington County
New Jersey, U.S.
DiedJuly 23, 1873
Moorestown, Burlington County
New Jersey, U.S.
OccupationFarmer
Merchant
Spouse(s)Mary Hussey (1773–1843)
Sarah (Morey) Underwood (1797-1889)
ChildrenEmmor (1808–1831)
Parent(s)Joshua Hunt (1753–1792)
Esther Roberts (1751–1820)

Elisha Hunt (1779–1873) was the principal entrepreneur behind the Monongahela and Ohio Steam Boat Company that built the historic steamboat Enterprise.[1][2]

Early life[]

Elisha Hunt was born on October 7, 1779 in Moorestown, Burlington County, New Jersey to Joshua Hunt and Esther (Roberts) Hunt.[3]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Shourds, pp. 314-20
  2. ^ Henshaw, pp. 51-7
  3. ^ Hynes, pp. 23-4

References[]

  • Horn, W. F. [ed.] (1945), The Horn papers: early western movement on the Monongahela and upper Ohio, 1765–1795, volume 3, Scottsdale, PA: Herald Press
  • Roberts-Hunt Family Papers, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • The Friend (1873), "Esther Collins and Ann Edwards", The Friend, a religious and literary journal, Volume XLVI, No. 46 and 47, Philadelphia: William H. Pile, pp. 362, 370-3
  • Henshaw, Marc Nicholas (2014). "Hog chains and Mark Twains: a study of labor history, archaeology, and industrial ethnography of the steamboat era of the Monongahela Valley 1811-1950." Dissertation, Michigan Technological University
  • Hunter, Louis C. (1949). Steamboats on the western rivers, an economic and technological history. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1949; reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1993.
  • Hynes, Judy, et al. (1997), The descendants of John and Elizabeth (Woolman) Borton, Mount Holly, New Jersey: John Woolman Memorial Association, pp. 23–4
  • Shourds, Thomas (1876). History and genealogy of Fenwick's Colony, New Jersey. Bridgeton, New Jersey: 314–20. ISBN 0-8063-0714-5
  • Woodward, E. M. (1883), History of Burlington County, New Jersey, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, pp. 270–1

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