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Personal recollection of events witnessed by Thomas Davis as remembered 18 Jan 2021.
↑ CHARLES GRANT HUNTER, postmaster of Columbus, has since boyhood been closely identified with Bartholomew County’s farming interests, and has also been a leader in the public affairs and buisness life of his community.
He was born in Columbus Township, Bartholomew County, January 28, 1869, a grandson of Joseph Hunter and of Arthur Vanwye. Arthur Vanwye was a soldier in the War of the Revolution. The Hunter family came from Ireland to America after the Revolution and settled in Ohio. Mr. Hunter’s father, Jesse Hunter, was a native of Trumbull County, Ohio, and came to Indiana in February, 1844. He married Catherine Vanwye, of Washington County, Pennsylvania.
Charles G. Hunter was the youngest in a large family of twelve children. He was seven years old when his father died, and after attending the grade schools took up regular duties on the home farm and has owned farming interests for many years. He is a past worthy patron of the Columbus Grange. Mr. Hunter in 1889 moved to Columbus and in March, 1900, he helped organize and incorporate the Farmers Mutual Insurance Company and has been active in that organization for thirty years and is still secretary. In 1918 he was elected county clerk, on the Republican ticket, serving four years. He was appointed postmaster in March, 1927, and is a member of the Tri-State Postmasters Association. Mr. Hunter is also president of the Bartholomew County Farm Loan Association, affiliated with the Federal Land Bank of Louisville.
He married Miss Emma Walker, who was born in Johnson County and came to Bartholomew County with her parents in the early ‘80s. They have one son, Abner Jesse, who is a graduate of Purdue University and was a second lieutenant of cavalry during the World war, stationed at Camp Taylor. He now has charge of his father’s farm. Abner Jesse Hunter married Ruth Newson, a niece of Vida Newson, and they are the parents of a daughter, Dorothea Jean.
Charles G. Hunter is affiliated with Elizabethtown Lodge No. 249, A. F. and A. M., is a member of the Royal Arch Chapter, the council degrees, is affiliated with Raleigh Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He is a past master of the Masonic Lodge. He has been very active in the Republican party and, for fifteen years was precinct committeeman and for two years county chairman.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol.3 BY CHARLES ROLL A.M. The Lewis Publishing Company 1931
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