Elisha Hunt (steamboat pioneer)

Elisha Hunt (1779–1873) was the principal entrepreneur behind the Monongahela and Ohio Steam Boat Company that built the historic steamboat Enterprise.[1][2]

Elisha Hunt
BornOctober 7, 1779
Moorestown, Burlington County, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedJuly 23, 1873
Moorestown, Burlington County, New Jersey, U.S.
OccupationFarmer
Merchant
Spouse(s)Mary Hussey (1773–1843)
Sarah (Morey) Underwood (1797-1889)
Children1

Early life

Elisha Hunt was born on October 7, 1779 in Moorestown, New Jersey to Joshua Hunt and Esther (Roberts) Hunt.[3]

Notes

  1. Shourds, pp. 314-20
  2. Henshaw, pp. 51-7
  3. Hynes, pp. 23-4

References

  • Horn, W. F. [ed.] (1945), The Horn papers: early western movement on the Monongahela and upper Ohio, 1765–1795, volume 3, Scottsdale, PA: Herald Press
  • Roberts-Hunt Family Papers, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • The Friend (1873), "Esther Collins and Ann Edwards", The Friend, a religious and literary journal, Volume XLVI, No. 46 and 47, Philadelphia: William H. Pile, pp. 362, 370-3
  • Henshaw, Marc Nicholas (2014). "Hog chains and Mark Twains: a study of labor history, archaeology, and industrial ethnography of the steamboat era of the Monongahela Valley 1811-1950." Dissertation, Michigan Technological University
  • Hunter, Louis C. (1949). Steamboats on the western rivers, an economic and technological history. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1949; reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1993.
  • Hynes, Judy, et al. (1997), The descendants of John and Elizabeth (Woolman) Borton, Mount Holly, New Jersey: John Woolman Memorial Association, pp. 23–4
  • Shourds, Thomas (1876). History and genealogy of Fenwick's Colony, New Jersey. Bridgeton, New Jersey: 314–20. ISBN 0-8063-0714-5
  • Woodward, E. M. (1883), History of Burlington County, New Jersey, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, pp. 270–1
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