History of Metuchen, (Middlesex County) New Jersey United States of America

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Ezra Mundy Hunt, physician, was born in Metuchen, N.J., Jan. 4, 1830; son of the Rev. Holloway W. and Henrietta (Mundy) Hunt. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1849 and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1852. He practised medicine in Metuchen, N.J., 1852-76; was lecturer at the Vermont Medical college, 1854, and was elected professor of chemistry there in 1854, but declined. He was regimental surgeon in the U.S. volunteer army, 1862-63, and in charge of hospital at Baltimore, Md., 1863-65. He was president of the New Jersey sanitary commission, 1874; of the State Medical society; vice-president of the American Medical association; secretary of the New Jersey board of health, 1877-94, and a delegate to the international medical congresses at London, 1881, and at Copenhagen, 1884. He was instructor in hygiene in the New Jersey State Normal school, Trenton, 1876-94. He received the degree of D.Sc. from Princeton in 1882 and that of LL.D. from Lafayette in 1890. He published: Patients\' and Physicians\' Aid (1859); Physicians\' Counsels (1859); Alcohol as a Food and Medicine (1877); Priinciples of Hygiene, together with the Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology (1887). He also published: The War anal its Lessons (1862); Grace Culture (1865); Bible Notes for Daily Readers (2 vols., 1870). He died in Trenton, N.J., July 1, 1894.

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

Theodore Whitefield Hunt, educator, was born in Metuchen, N.J., Feb. 19, 1844; son of Holloway W. and Henrietta (Mundy) Hunt; grandson of the Rev. Gardiner Augustine and Ruth (Page) Hunt and of Ezra and Catherine Mundy, and a descendant of Augustin and Lydia (Holloway) Hunt. His first American ancestor was Thomas Hunt, born in 1626, at West Farms, N.Y. He was graduated at the College of New. Jersey, A.B., 1865, A.M., 1868; studied at Union Theological seminary, 1866-68, and was graduated at Princeton Theological seminary in 1869. He was a tutor in English in the College of New Jersey, 1868-71; studied in Europe at the University of Berlin, 1871-73; was adjunct professor of rhetoric and English language in the College of New Jersey, 1873-81, and was elected full professor of English language and literature in 1881. He was ordained by the presbytery of Elizabeth, April 17, 1878; received the degree of Ph.D. from Lafayette college in 1880, and that of Litt. D. from Rutgers in 1890. He published: C?dmon's Exodus and Daniel (1883); Principles of Written Discourse (1884); English Prose and Prose Writers (1887); Studies in Literature and Style (1890) ; Ethical Teachings in Old English Literature (1894); American Meditative Lyrics (1896); English Meditative Lyrics (1899), and contributed to current periodicals.

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

Ezekiel Wilson Mundy, clergyman and librarian, was born in Metuchen, N.J., June 16, 1833; son of Luther Bloomfield and Frances Eliza (Martin) Mundy, and grandson of Ezekiel and Lovicy Mundy, and of Dr. William and Sarah (Elston) Martin. He attended the academy at Essex, Conn., and was graduated from the Rochester university, A.B. 1860, A.M. 1863, and from the Rochester Theological seminary in 1863. He was pastor of the First Baptist church at Syracuse, 1863-66. In 1866 he helped to organize an independent church of which he was pastor until 1879. He was married, Jan. 15, 1873, to Emily, daughter of Horace and Emily (King) Kendall of Suffield, Conn. In 1882 he was confirmed in the Protestant Episcopal church. Hewas admitted to the diaconate the same year and to the priesthood in 1884, and was rector of St. Mark's church, Syracuse, N.Y., 1883-94. He was appointed librarian of the Syracuse Central library in 1880; was elected a member of the Historical society of Onondaga county, N.Y., in 1870, and of the Syracuse Historical and Genealogical society in 1898.

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