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German Horton Hunt (December 12, 1828 - June 16, 1907) was an American industrialist and businessman. Hunt was principally associated with his industrial partnership with Robert Poole in Baltimore, Maryland, Poole & Hunt, where he was a partner from 1851 to 1889.

Hunt also held founding or major positions with several other nineteenth-century Baltimore firms, served as president of both the Maryland Institute and the McDonogh School, and served on the city's parks and trade boards.

Early Life
German Hunt was born December 27th, 1828 in Baltimore, Maryland to Germyn Hunt and Eleanor Horton. His parents had emigrated from Derby, England about 1820. Educated in private schools, Hunt entered the machine shop of Watchman & Bratt as an apprentice at age 16 in 1844.

Career
In 1847, Hunt entered the firm of Poole & Ferguson, then located on North Street, in an executive position. Four years later, at the retirement of William Ferguson, Hunt became a partner in the company, which was renamed Poole & Hunt. The North Street works were destroyed by fire in 1853, after which the company moved its main facilities outside the (then) city limits to Woodberry in Baltimore County.

04/1855 Secretary of the Maryland Institute also trustee

Purpose of trade board as to promote commercial and industrial interests in the city. Hunt director of trade board

Board of directors of Washington Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore

Trustee of McDonogh School President

director of several important banks An organizer and first President (until 1892) of the Baltimore Trust and Guarantee Company

founding member of Merchants and Manufacturers Association of Maryland

member of Masonic Fraternity

member of Methodist Episcopal Church

member of Maryland Historical Society

Politics
Whig until 1856, Democratic thereafter

Death
Died of paralysis at his cottage at Chattolanee in the Green Spring Valley on June 16th, 1907, after several hours of illness.

Hunt's funeral on June 19th was lead from his city residence, 1802 Eutaw Place, to Green Mount Cemetery. The service was lead by Rev. J. St. Clair of Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church and Rev. Hobart Smith of St. Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church.

One-fifth of Hunt's fortune was bequeathed to the McDonogh School, which occurred in 1928, on the death of his daughters.

Family
Hunt first married Elizabeth E Meddinger, who died in 1854. This marriage yielded two children - Laura & Eleanor. Hunt remarried in 1856, this time to Maria Louisa Hiser. Prior to marriage, Hiser ran a seminary for young women from her home. Afterwards she served as both vice-president and secretary of the Nursery and Child's Hospital of Baltimore City. This second marriage produced one son, Horton, who died in childhood. Maria Louisa Hunt died of heart disease in 1892. She left an estate in her own name worth $5778.

Eleanor L. Hunt married William H. Emory in January 1878. Laura Hunt lived with her father until his death.

In 1889, Hunt built a 3 1/2-story white marble mansion at 1802 Eutaw Place, designed by Charles L. Carson, which would remain his primary residence until his death. Members of Hunt's family, including grandchildren, resided with him there during his life. In 1910, the mansion, which contained a passenger elevator, was purchased for $30,000 by Johns Hopkins University professor and economist Jacob Hollander, who lived there until his own death. The building was subdivided into apartments in 1942, before being converted into a nursing home in 1953.