Biography
Hunter was born in Antrim, Ireland and came to the United States with his parents when he was two years old. The family settled in Pennsylvania where Hunter received a common-school education. In 1833 he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in 1835 he moved to Manchester, Missouri, near St. Louis, and began teaching school. In 1836 he received a license to preach and spent one year preaching to the Choctaw nation near Muskogee, Oklahoma and then appointed to a missionary school at Bayou Baynard, He was ordained a deacon in Fayetteville, Arkansas in 1839 he became an elder in Little Rock, Arkansas. In the fall of 1842 he was made presiding elder of the Washington District, which comprised a large portion of Southern Arkansas. He served as pastor of what is now First United Methodist Church in Little Rock
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