John Wesley Hunt
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Gender | Male |
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Date of birth | January 1,1773 |
Born | Trenton |
New Jersey | |
United States | |
Died | Lexington |
Kentucky | |
United States | |
1849 | |
Lexington | |
Kentucky | |
United States | |
Grandchildren | Charlton Hunt Morgan |
Henrietta Hunt Morgan | |
Children | Henrietta Hunt |
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ID | 4417714 |
John Wesley Hunt Life story
John Wesley Hunt was a prominent businessman, slave trader, and early civic leader in Lexington, Kentucky. He was one of the first millionaires west of the Allegheny Mountains. Hunt enslaved as many as 77 people, many of them children, including farm and industrial and domestic workers.