History of Irvington, (Essex County) New Jersey United States of America

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Sanford Bebee Hunt, journalist, was born in Ithaca, N.Y., Dec. 25, 1825; son of Horace Hunt. His ancestors settled in Connecticut in 1635. He attended the academy at Watertown, N.Y., and was graduated at the Medical college, Willoughby, Ohio, in 1845, and practised in Hunt's Hollow, N.Y., where he resided with his uncle, Sanford Hunt, father of Gov. Washingington Hunt. He removed to Mendon, N.Y., practised medicine, and was demonstrator of anatomy at the Medical college, Buffalo, N.Y., 1853-60. He was elected superintendent of schools in Buffalo in 1860, and upon the resignation of Ivory Chamberlain from the editorial staff of the New York Commercial Advertiser, Dr. Hunt succeeded to his position as editor-in-chief. He subsequently became editor of the Buffalo Express. He was commissioned surgeon of the 109th New York volunteers, Col. Benjamin F. Tracy, in 1861. He was transferred to Camp Convalescent, near Alexandria, Va.; was appointed staff surgeon to General Heintzelman, of the Army of the Ohio, and in 1864 was ordered to Fort Smith, Ark., as medical director of the army of the frontier, where he was during the three months' siege, and upon the evacuation of the fort he was transferred to Little Rock, Ark., where he organized government hospitals. He participated in the siege of Mobile, and in 1865 was appointed medical director of the Army of Occupation of Texas. He was mustered out of the service in May, 1865, and was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for gallant and meritorious services during the war. He returned to Buffalo, where he engaged in literary pursuits. He was editor of the Newark Daily Advertiser, 1866-84. He was married in 1854 to Martha Tallmadge, of Mendon, N.Y. His first published article, "The Country Doctor," appeared in the Knickerbocker Magazine of 1854. He was editor and proprietor of the Buffalo Medical Journal, and is the author of: The History of the United States Sanitary Commission (1866): The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1866). He died at Irvington, N.J., April 17, 1884.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Irvington, (Essex County) New Jersey

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