Hines, H. K. "An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon." Chicago: Lewis
Pub. Co. 1893.  p. 261.

HENRY HUNTER

     One of the builders of the beautiful Sunnyside of Portland is a native of
Massachusetts, born May 25, 1835.  He is a son of James G. Hunter, of the same
State, whose father, James Hunter, was born in Scotland, and came to America
before the Revolution, was a soldier in that war, and his wife's house on State
Street in Boston, was the last of the old houses taken down to make way for the
large new buildings.  She lived to be 103 years old.  His son married Sarah
Wood, daughter of Thomas Wood of English ancestry, who came to America at an
early date and were also participants in the Revolutionary war.  James Hunter
had ten children, eight of whom are still living.
     Henry was the fifth child and was raised and educated in his native State,
later he learned the trade of carriage-maker.  In 1855 he removed to Wisconsin
and followed his trade, speculting successfully in lands and stock.  When the
great war broke out he enlisted, April 1, 1861, in Company K, Eighth Wisconsin
Volunteer Infantry.  In August, 1862, he re-enlisted in the Twenty-Fifth
Volunteer Infantry, but was afterward transferred to the Fifty-Third Regiment
and served until the close of the war.  He was mustered out, August 29, 1865,
and retired to his home and engaged at his trade and in furnishing supplies to
the lumber camps on the Chippewa river, Wisconsin, and continued in this
business until 1878, when he came to the coast and settled at Dayton,
Washington.  Here he engaged in farming and stock-raising, and invested in
valuable tracts of land there.  He came to Portland, in 1890, and invested in
property at Sunnyside, where he is now doing a general real-estate business
together with loaning money.  Sunnyside is a beautiful tract on the east side of
the Willamette river, on the motor line that conveys you in ten minutes from the
center of the city to this delightful spot.  The moter runs every fifteen
minutes.  Sunnyside is 150 feet above the business portion of the city, and a
fine view is obtained from its heights of the city and the surrounding country.
     Mr. Hunter is a member of George Wright Post, G. A. R. of Portland.
     He was married in 1854, to Susan H. Sentes, of Derry, New Hampshire.  Her
family is of English ancestry.   Mr. and Mrs. Hunter have had seven children,
six of whom are living:  The eldest, a daughter, Ida, is the wife of C. B.
Crisinger, of Chicago; Anna, married M. A. Baker of Seattle, a prominent
attorney there; Frank is a contractor in Portland; Earl is in the office with
his father, and the two youngest, Lela and Matie are at home.
     The firm of which Mr. Hunter is a member is H. Hunter & Co.  Mr. Hunter has
built a fine home in Sunnyside where he is fast becoming surrounded by
neighbors.   He is now completing a block for stores and a hall to accomodate
the secret orders of the town.  He is a Republican, and was County Assessor of
Columbia county, Washington, two terms.  He is among the good, solid business
men of this great city.
 

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in October 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.