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	WILLIAM HUNTER (1718–1... - Online Information article about WILLIAM HUNTER (1718–1...
		By degrees Hunter renounced surgical for obstetric practice, in which he excelled.
		Hunter was the author of several contributions to the Medical Observations and Enquiries and the Philosophical Transactions.
		In the Commentaries is exhibited Hunter's one weakness—an inordinate love of controversy.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /HOR_I25/HUNTER_WILLIAM_17181783_.html (1597 words)

	John Hunter - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		JOHN HUNTER (1728-1793), British physiologist and surgeon, was born on the 13th 1 of February 1728, at Long Calderwood, in the parish of East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, being the youngest of the ten children of John and Agnes Hunter.
		Hunter, unlike his contemporaries, to most of whom his philosophic habit of thought was a mystery, and whose books contained little else than relations of cases and modes of treatment, sought the reason for each phenomenon that came under his notice.
		Hunter explained to them how he was situated, but promised to advance their request at the next board meeting at the hospital on the 16th of October.
	57.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HU/HUNTER_JOHN.htm (5446 words)

	Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (April 21, 1809–July 18, 1887), American statesman, was born in Essex County, Virginia.
		He entered the University of Virginia in his seventeenth year and was one of its first graduates; he then studied law at the Winchester (Va.) Law School, and in 1830 was admitted to the bar.
		See Martha T Hunter, A Memoir of Robert MT Hunter (Washington, 1903) for his private life, and DR Anderson, Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, in the John P Branch Historical Papers of Randolph Macon College (vol.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Mercer_Taliaferro_Hunter (469 words)

	Sir William Wilson Hunter - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Hunter adopted a transliteration of vernacular place-names, by which means the correct pronunciation is ordinarily indicated; but hardly sufficient allowance was made for old spellings consecrated by history and long usage.
		In 1882 Hunter, as a member of the governor-general's council, presided over the commission on Indian Education; in 1886 he was elected vicechancellor of the university of Calcutta.
		In the winter of 18981899, in consequence of the fatigue incurred in a journey to the Caspian and back, on a visit to the sick-bed of one of his two sons, Hunter was stricken down by a severe attack of influenza, which affected his heart.
	63.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HU/HUNTER_SIR_WILLIAM_WILSON.htm (706 words)

	Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		ROBERT MERCER TALIAFERRO HUNTER (1809-1887), American statesman, was born in Essex (disambiguation)Essex county, Virginia, on the 21st of April 1809.
		From 1874 to 1880 he was treasurer of Virginia, and from 1885 until his death near Lloyds, Virginia, on the 18th of July 1887, was collector of the Port of Tappahannock, Virginia.
		See Martha T. Hunter, A Memoir of Robert M. Hunter (Washington, 1903) for his private life, and D. Anderson, Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, in the John P. Branch Historical Papers of Randolph Macon College (vol.
	62.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HU/HUNTER_ROBERT_MERCER_TALIAFERRO.htm (312 words)

	Robert Hunter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		General Robert Hunter (1664/1666–1734), Lieutenant Governor of Virginia Colony, Governor of New York, New Jersey, Jamaica
		Robert Hunter (lyricist) (born 1941), lyricist (known for his work with the Grateful Dead), poet, songwriter, singer
		Robert Hunter (consumer advocate), director of insurance for the Consumer Federation of America
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Hunter (201 words)

	Hunter, Robert Mercer Taliaferro - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		HUNTER, ROBERT MERCER TALIAFERRO [Hunter, Robert Mercer Taliaferro], 1809-87, American statesman, b.
		Hunter became a leading states' rights Democrat and supported John C. Calhoun for the presidency in 1844.
		Imprisoned for several months after the war, Hunter helped organize (1867) a conservative party that won control of the Virginia state government from the radicals in 1869.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:Hunter-RM&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (167 words)

	Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter
		Hunter framed the tariff act of 1857, by which the duties were considerably lowered, and the revenue reduced.
		Hunter then presided over a war meeting in Richmond, at which resolutions were passed that the Confederates would never lay down their arms till they should have achieved their independence.
		Hunter at first opposed it, but, having been instructed by the Virginia legislature to vote in its favor, did so, accompanying his vote with an emphatic protest.
	www.famousamericans.net /robertmercertaliaferrohunter (807 words)

	Hunter Family Papers, 1766-1918
		Hunter's Mill records consist of corn and wheat receipts and mill accounts, 1858–1884; a mill book, 1873–1877, covering operations of the mill in Essex County; and papers concerning saw mill operations (mill books, 1830–1832 and 1868–1869, which include memoranda of amounts of plank cut for customers, and notes, work orders and accounts).
		Also included are: Hunter's notes on the 1850 Compromise and possible constitutional amendments (the suggestions of John C. Calhoun?); a petition of citizens of Pennsylvania opposing further acquisition of territory and extension of federal jurisdiction; lists of members of the Virginia legislature in the 1850–1851 session (Folder 2); materials, ca.
		Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter married Mary Evelina Dandridge of "The Bower," Jefferson County, Va. (now W. Va.) in 1836 and brought her to live at "Fonthill." "Line," as she was invariably called by the family, maintained extensive correspondence with members of the Dandridge and Hunter families (Box 16).
	www.vahistorical.org /arvfind/hunter.htm (3704 words)

	Taliaferro Times, Issue 17
		In this instance, the widow of Robert Taliaferro, herself, used the name Katherine and spelled it with a "K." The recording clerk would have had her signed statement at hand when the record was originated.
		>From this we see that Katherine, wife of Robert Taliaferro, Ann, wife of Edward Hoyle and Mary Dedman were sisters and daughters of Katherine, wife of the Rev. Charles Grymes, by a previous marriage and hence step-daughters ("daughters in law" in the 17 and 18th century use of the word) of the Rev.
		I have also seen speculation that the wife of Robert Taliaferro I was perhaps Sarah Katherine or Katherine Sarah, and was called Sarah to distinguish her from her mother.
	www.spingola.com /TaliaferroTimes/TT17.htm (3443 words)

	Kansas Counties
		Probably named for Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (1809-1887), a Virginia congressman and senator, who favored the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution.
		Hunter was one of the original 33 counties created by the first territorial legislature in 1855.
		The greater portion of what was Hunter County is now included in Cowley County, with the remainder scattered among Sedgwick, Sumner, Butler, Elk, Chautauqua, and Greenwood counties.
	www.kshs.org /genealogists/places/counties.php?county=HU (118 words)

	Today in History: April 21
		Robert M.T. Hunter was born on April 21, 1801, in Essex County, Virginia and educated at the University of Virginia.
		Confederate President Jefferson Davis appointed Hunter, along with Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederate States of America (former representative from Georgia) and John A. Campbell, assistant secretary of war for the Confederacy (former U.S. Supreme Court justice) to attend a peace conference with Union representatives.
		Hunter, Stephens, and Campbell met with President Lincoln and U.S. Secretary of War William H. Seward on February 3, 1865, on the Federal steamship River Queen, which they boarded at Fort Monroe, Virginia.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/today/apr21.html (821 words)

	Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (21 April 1809-18 July 1887)
		Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter was born to James Hunter (14 March 1774-February 1826) and Maria Garnett (22 July 1777-14 August 1811) at Mount Pleasant, near Loretto, Essex County, Virginia on 21 April 1809.
		Hunter was then elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and served 04 March 1837 to 03 March 1843.
		Hunter is buried at Elmwood, location of his family burial grounds, near Loretto, Essex County, Virginia.
	www.csawardept.com /history/Cabinet/Hunter/index.html (498 words)

	Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter - Encyclopedia.com
		Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, 1809-87, American statesman, b.
		Hunter became a leading states' rights Democrat and supported John C. Calhoun for the presidency in 1844.
		Raquel Christine Hailey, Matthew Hunter Newman Haith, Deidra Alexandra...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Hunter-RM.html (797 words)

	Robert Mercer Taliaferro HUNTER — Infoplease.com
		Dictionary of American Biography ; Fisher, John E. “Statesman of a Lost Cause: The Career of R.M.T. Hunter, 1859-1887.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia, 1966; Moore, Richard Randall, “Robert M.T. Hunter and the Crisis of the Union, 1860-1861.” Southern Historian 13 (Spring 1992): 25-35.
		“Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter.”Virginia Cavalcade 18 (Autumn 1968): 9-13.
		“Robert M.T. Hunter and the Crisis of the Union, 1860-1861.” Southern Historian 13 (Spring 1992): 25-35.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/us/congress/hunter-robert-mercer-taliaferro.html (274 words)

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		Robert Thruston Hubard apparently purchased also Whispering, the home of his uncle, Lenaeus Bolling, who was his father-in-law as well, and, at one time, mentioned keeping Rosny, where he had lived when first married, as it had belonged to his wife, Susan Bolling Hubard.
		There are letters, dated November 1861, from Robert Thruston Hubard to Edmund Wilcox Hubard concerning the danger of southerners wanting the Confederate government to buy their produce because of the lack of sales due to blockade of ports, which would result in higher taxes and inflation of currency.
		Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter at Richmond, about personal matters and the possibility of cessation of hostilities, 25 March 1862.
	www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/h/Hubard_Family (13646 words)

	The Home Library of the Garnetts of "Elmwood"
		An indication of James Mercer Garnett's reputation as an educator was his election, in 1824, as a member of the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary.
		What this resumé does not reveal is that throughout his long career Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter proved himself to be a man of broad culture--and that his public addresses (a plump volume of them could be compiled) demonstrate a foundation of literary as well as of political knowledge.
		Robert M. Hunter had read law under Judge Tucker in Winchester; and his home-loving nephew was for that session of 1841-1842 made a member of the Tucker household.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /garnett/home_library/home_library.html (6179 words)

	N - CSA R.M.T. Hunter
		A seventh state, Texas, was admitted to the confederation on March 2nd.
		Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (1809 - 1887), Confederate secretary of state (1861) and peace commissioner (1865); born in Essex County, Virginia; member of Congress 1837 - 1843 and 1845 - 1847; speaker of the House of Representatives 1839 ?
		All of these banknotes showing Hunter are hand signed (for the Register and the Treasurer) and numbered (dated February 17th 1864).
	www.pomexport.com /N-CSA_RMT_Hunter.jpg/N-CSA_RMT_Hunter.htm (148 words)

	Robert Hunter (1801-1887) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter was born on April 21, 1801, at "Mount Pleasant," near Loretto, Essex County, Virginia.
		He was tutored at home, entered the University of Virginia in his seventeenth year and was one of its first graduates; he then studied law at the Winchester (Va.) Law School, and in 1830 was admitted to the bar and commenced practice at Lloyds.
		Hunter died on his estate 'Fonthill,' near Lloyds, Va., on July 18, 1887 and is buried in 'Elmwood,' the family burial ground, near Loretto, Va.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/hunter.html (460 words)

	northva
		Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet, CSA, moving eastward to join Stonewall Jackson, CSA, at Manassas, found this gap held by a Union force, August 28, 1862.
		[N/A] Robert E. Lee's headquarters of the Army of Northern Virginia in the winter of 1862 to 1863 were a mile down this road.
		Imprisoned briefly at the end of the war, Hunter soon resumed his public career, serving as treasurer of Virginia from 1874 to 1880.
	www.mosocco.com /northva.htm (7612 words)

	Amazing Taliaferro Mystery Apple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Capt. Jeff Taliaferro had a birds-eye view of the State of the Union Address Tuesday night.
		After his graduation from the Air Force Academy in 1989 and his subsequent flight training at Reese AFB, Taliaferro was assigned to the 337th Bomb Squadron at Dyess AFB.
		In 1997, Taliaferro returned to flying and was assigned to Ellsworth.
	www.taliaferro.net /genealogy/page8.html (247 words)

	William C. Harris \| The Hampton Roads Peace Conference: A Final Test of Lincoln's Presidential Leadership \| Journal of ...
		Stevens [sic] & Hunter that their intentions are good and their desire sincere to restore peace and union." "Their letter to me," the commanding general declared, "was all that the President's instructions contemplated" for the beginning of peace talks.
		Seward," Lincoln interjected, as Senator Hunter later recalled, "you may talk so about slavery, if you will; but if was wrong in the South to hold slaves, it was wrong in the North to carry on the slave trade and sell them to the South,...
		It was probably during this exchange that Hunter remarked that even Charles I of England had been willing to compromise with the Parliamentary forces in arms against him, and Lincoln should do likewise with the Confederates.
	jala.press.uiuc.edu /21.1/harris.html (11107 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Mercer
		Mercer, David Henry (1857-1919) — also known as David H. Mercer — of Omaha,
		Son of Louis Albert Mercer and Frances (Grady) Mercer; married 1934 to Mary Harriett Scarborough.
		Mercer, J. — of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kan. Republican.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/mercer.html (467 words)

	Index to the correspondence of Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter
		Index to the correspondence of Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter
		Index to the correspondence of Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (1809–1887).
		This index lists all correspondents of R. Hunter (1809–1887) alphabetically and includes brief identifications of some writers, as well as references to specific subjects not listed in the summary description of the Hunter family collection.
	www.vahistorical.org /arvfind/hunterindex.htm (667 words)

	Inventory of the Campbell Family Papers, 1781-1938
		John A. Campbell, along with Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (1809-1887) and Alexander H. Stephens (1812-1883), negotiated for terms of peace with Abraham Lincoln and William H. Seward on 3 February 1865 on board a ship in Hampton Roads.
		After the war, Campbell and Hunter were arrested for the assassination of Lincoln.
		Nearly half of this collection is composed of letters received between 1865 and 1915 by members of the Campbell, Colston, or Groner families, principal recipients being Frederick M. Colston and the daughters of Judge John A. Campbell.
	www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/htm/00135.html (2128 words)

	Cadet Life & VMI History. Guide to Manuscripts in the Virginia Military Institute Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Biographical note: Robert Gatewood, b 1829; VMI Class of 1849; educator, Episcopal clergyman, Principal of Norfolk (VA) Academy; d.
		Descriptive note: 41 page manuscript of speech given at VMI by Senator Robert M. Hunter on July 3, 1857 as part of the celebrations marking the end of the academic year.
		Mercer was a benefactor of VMI during the 19th century.
	www.vmi.edu /archives/Manuscripts/msguide1.html (8017 words)

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		In several notebooks, 1836-62, Robert T. Hubard, Sr., made notes for the instruction of his sons in farming methods, of his crops produced each year on the plantations, and on his slaves.
		Also included are a daybook of William Hunter containing lists of slaves and clothing and shoe allotments and a daybook of James Mercer and Mercer Garnett as estate administrators containing slave lists and evaluations.
		Papers of Robert M. Kent of Louisa Court House and the Hunter, Thompson, and Lane families of Louisa County.
	www.upress.virginia.edu /plunkett/old-html/PluAfro16.html (13949 words)

	Robert Toombs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Robert Toombs was Jefferson Davis's first appointee to the post of Secretary of State.
		Prior to this position, Toombs became rather influential by being one of the 50 to compose the Confederate Constitution.
		With the convoking of one of the most important meetings in the history of the United States Congress, Hunter's comment assumed deep significance.
	www.civilwarhistory.com /_010499/secretaryofstate.htm (1166 words)

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