Elisha Hunt
A significant body of evidence suggests that Elisha Hunt was the principal founder of The Monongahela and Ohio Steamboat Company.
Elisha Hunt was a prominent businessman, land owner, and a director of the Monongahela Bank of Brownsville. From his store, which was located close to the Monongahela River in the center of Brownsville, he sold a wide variety of goods, ranging from nails and gunpowder to clothing, to local customers. Hunt had increased his business to the degree that his younger brother Caleb began to work at the store. The Hunts were ambitious and they wanted to continue to increase their mercantile business. To accomplish this they planned to augment the store business with commerce via the western rivers.
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