. Contemporary American biography . able—are to be ascribed in thebeginning to the loving nurture of his mother, whose wisdom and wide experience havefurnished him a refuge also in all the needs and perplexities of after-life. If we mightonly question men of achievement as to the real sources of their success, I doubt -notthat the answer would most often be the simple sentence, I had a mother. Captain Huntwas educated at the Roxbury High School, now a part of the Boston High School, and at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology, at which latter institution he graduated, in 1876, withthe degr
. Contemporary American biography . able—are to be ascribed in thebeginning to the loving nurture of his mother, whose wisdom and wide experience havefurnished him a refuge also in all the needs and perplexities of after-life. If we mightonly question men of achievement as to the real sources of their success, I doubt -notthat the answer would most often be the simple sentence, I had a mother. Captain Huntwas educated at the Roxbury High School, now a part of the Boston High School, and at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology, at which latter institution he graduated, in 1876, withthe degree of Bachelor of Science in the Department of Metallurgy and Mining student days, and for some time after graduation, he was connected with the UnitedStates Geological Survey and with a number of private surveying parties in topographical andrailroad locating work in the West. He later became connected with the Bay State IronWorks at South Boston, Mass., which company were the builders and owners of the second. CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 475 open-hearth steel furnace built in America. At the suggestion of Mr. Ealph Croocker, Sr.,General Manager of the concern, and one of the best known of the old iron-masters of thecountry, young Hunt went to Michigan, exploited for iron ores, and bringing specimens withhim on his return to Boston, analyzed them, and on the basis of his analysis made the firstreport on the ore of the Michigamme Mines, one of the first finds developed in the wonderfuliron region of Northern Michigan and Wisconsin. In 1877 he accepted an offer from theNashua, N. H., Open-hearth Steel Works to fill the offices of Manager and Chemist, andremained with that concern until 1879 when he resigned and accepted the office of super-intendent of the open-hearth steel and heavy-hammer department of Park, Brother & Co.,Limited, the Black Diamond Steel Works of Pittsburgh, Pa. He resigned in 1882, and becameforthwith senior partner of the firm of Hu
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