Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt Explained
Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt (often called E. K. Hunt) (August 26, 1810 - May 2, 1889)[1] was a prominent physician in Hartford, Connecticut.[2]
Early life
Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt was born in Coventry, Connecticut. Hunt's parents were Dr. Eleazar Hunt (1786-1867) and Sybil (née Pomeroy) Hunt (1789-1876).
He was educated in the schools of Middletown, Connecticut and Amherst, Massachusetts[3] and graduated from Yale College in 1833, where he was a member of the Linonian Society. He studied medicine at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, receiving his M.D. in 1838.
Career
Hunt became a prominent physician in Hartford, President of the Connecticut State Medical Society in 1864 and 1865, director and medical visitor of the Connecticut Retreat for the Insane (now called The Institute of Living), and physician to the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb (now called the American School for the Deaf).
Personal life
On June 13, 1848, he married Mary A. Crosby (1826–1893), a daughter of Daniel P. Crosby of Hartford. Together, Ebenezer and Mary were the parents of four children, including:[4]
- Louise Hunt,[5] who married J. Benjamin Dimmick (1858–1920).[4]
- Jeannette Hunt, who married George Goodwin Williams.[6] [7]
- Sarah Crosby Hunt (1849–1853), who died young.[4]
- Mary Sibyl Hunt (1852–1855), who died young.[4]
Hunt died in Hartford on May 2, 1889.
Legacy
The E. K. Hunt Chair (i.e., Professorship) of Anatomy at Yale University is named after him.[8]
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Notes and References
- Book: Kingsbury . Frederick John . Mary Kingsbury . Talcott . The genealogy of the descendants of Henry Kingsbury, of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass. . 2011-07-13 . 1905 . Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company . . 246 .
- Hunt, Ebenezer Kingsbury.
- Book: James Grant . Wilson . James Grant Wilson . John . Fiske . John Fiske (philosopher) . Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, Volume 8 . 2011-07-13 . 1918 . . New York City . 130 .
- Book: Kingsbury . Frederick John . The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury, of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass . 1905 . Hartford Press . 246 . 20 February 2019 . en.
- Book: Pennsylvania . National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of . Register of Pennsylvania Society of the Colonial Dames of America . 1907 . 46 . 20 February 2019 . en.
- Book: Revolution . Sons of the American . Cornish . Louis Henry . Clark . Alonzo Howard . A National Register of the Society, Sons of the American Revolution . 1902 . Press of A. H. Kellogg . 230 . 20 February 2019 . en.
- Book: Wilson . Woodrow . Link . Arthur Stanley . The Papers of Woodrow Wilson . 1980 . Princeton University Press . 274 . en.
- Book: Catalogue of Yale University, 1908-09 . 2011-07-13 . 1908 . . . 466 . [The Ebenezer K. Hunt endowment fund] was founded in 1896 by a bequest of twenty-five thousand dollars from Mrs. E. K. Hunt as an endowment of the Chair of Anatomy in memory of Ebenezer K. Hunt, M.D., a graduate of Yale College in 1833..
