From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 706.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


MAJ. HANSON W. HUNTER

Maj. Hanson W. Hunter, cashier of the Marshall county bank and ex-sheriff
of the county, was born at Wheeling June 7, 1837.  His father was Robert B.
Hunter, a native of Ohio, a cabinet-maker and farmer by occupation, and a
justice for many years.  He died n Missouri at the age of sixty-three, and
his wife, Artemisia Shepherd, died in 1859, leaving besides Hanson, one son,
Oscar B., who died in New Orleans of yellow fever in 1878.  Hanson W. became
resident of Marshall county in 1844, and in his youth was engaged in clerking
and in boating until July, 1861, when he asisted in recruiting Company I, of
the Third West Virginia regiment, of which he was mustered in as first
lieutenant.  In 1862 he was promoted to captain.  He took part in the battles
of McDowel, Cross Keys, and in August, 1862, was detailed on Gen. Milroy's
staff.  He was in the second battle of Bull Run, and subsequently acted as
provost marshal of the second division, eighth army corps, until 1863, when
he joined his regiment at Philippi.  He was in the Salem raid under Gen.
Averill, and then his regiment was converted into the Sixth West Virginia
cavalry, of which he was commissioned major.  Going to Beverly in command of
a detachment he remained there until mustered out in August, 1864.  Since the
war Major Hunter has become one of the prominent men of the county,
enterprising and successful in business, faithful and popular as an official.
 He served as revenue assessor of the first district from 1872 to 1876, was
deputy sheriff from 1867 to 1871, under Sheriff Henry Keltz, and in 1876 was
elected sheriff, an office he held until 1881.  Since that date he has served
as cashier of the Marshall County bank, of which he is the principal individual
stockholder.  The major is a member of the Grand Army, the Knights of Honor, the
Knights of Pythias, and the National Union, and politically is a republican.  He
has lent his aid to various enterprises for the advancement of the interests of
the town, and was one of the promoters of the sinking of the coal shaft at
Moundsville, in 1883, an enterprise which distributes nearly $1,500 weekly in the
town. On February 22, 1865, he was married to Jane Edwards, and they have three
children: Daisy, Carl and Lottie.


(Linda Fluharty)