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A biography of Joseph C. Hunter, MD, Antelope, MT, is included in "Montana, Its Story and Biography", Vol 3, pages 806 & 807.
Joseph was born, 8 Jul 1850, eldest child of Robert and Elizabeth Jane (Coe) Hunter. In 1858, Robert took his family to Iowa where he was a farmer. Robert and Elizabeth died in Princeton, Iowa. Their children were: Joseph, Loretta (Mrs. Gus Culbertson, in California), Mary (Mrs. Harvey Robertson, Washington state), Sarah (Mrs. James White, Washington state), John (Mapleton, IA), Robert E., Jr., (Iowa City, IA).
Joseph Hunter attended Iowa country schools, the academy at Princeton, IA, and attended Monmouth College, IL. In 1871, he entered Rush Medical College in Chicago. His education was interrupted by the gheat Chicago fire and entered the school of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in Mar 1873. He practiced in and around Dubuque, IA, for about 10 years and in 1884 came to Boulder, MT, as a physician at Boulder Hot Springs. In 1887 he moved to Helena, then to Niehart, having charge of the Miner's Union Hospital until 1893. He returned to Helena and resumed practice as a specialist in chronic, nervous, and other diseases. In 1893, he took a course at the Chicago Post Graduate School of Medicine. He remained in Helena until 1895 when he moved to Butte, MT, and was in practice during the flu epidemic. He contracted the flu, was bedridden for several months, and lost his health completely. He abandoned his profession for a change of climate and spent three years in Oklahoma and at his old homestead in Iowa. He returned to Montana and resumed practice at Fairfield, then went to Outlook, and in the fall of 1919 he moved to Antelope, MT.
Joseph married his first wife, Mary Garber, in Iowa. They had two chidren: Robert R. (Spokane, WA) and Pearl (WA). At Outlook, MT, he married Miss Grace B. Coburn of St. Paul, born in Wisconsin, daughter of John Coburn. She was a successful teacher in Minnesota and Montana.
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