Elisha Hunt (steamboat pioneer)
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Born | October 7, 1779 Moorestown, Burlington County New Jersey, U.S. |
Died | July 23, 1873 Moorestown, Burlington County New Jersey, U.S. |
Occupation | Farmer Merchant |
Spouse(s) | Mary Hussey (1773–1843) Sarah (Morey) Underwood (1797-1889) |
Children | Emmor (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]
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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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