"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE

MORGAN CO., INDIANA
BROWN TOWNSHIP & MOORESVILLE
PAGE 226

WILLIAM A. HUNT, editor of the Mooresville Monitor, is a native of Martinsville, Ind.,
and is the only child of Nathan A. and Mary A. (Coble) Hunt, natives of the State of
North Carolina, and of English and German extraction respectively.  William A. was born
August 5, 1853, and his parents removed to Mooresville in the year 1854, where, with
the exception of two years spent in Danville, Ind., our subject has since resided.  At the
age of fourteen years, he was thrown upon his own resources, and his schooling, limited
to about eight months is the aggregate, was procured after that age.  In 1865, he entered
the confectionary store of his grandfather, at Mooresville, and remained up to 1874.
At this time, his grandfather died, he embarked in business on his own account, and
for two years, though nearly destitute of financial capital, he managed, young as he was, 
to support himself, his mother and grandmother, both the later being confirmed invalids.  
In 1877, he entered the office of the Mooresville Herald, as a "printer's devil," where he 
remained three years, learning the trade of a printer in the meantime, and in 1880 engaged
as a compositor on the Mooresville Monitor, and in 1881, upon the retirement of A. W.
Macy, Mr. Hunt was appointed by the directors, editor, which position he has since
held, and the dutires of which he has discharged with credit to himself and to the satisfac-
tion of his patrons.  Since becoming the editor of the Monitor--which is owned by a
joint-stock company--he has by industry and economy been able to possess himself of
two-thirds of its stock, and is at ths writing, December, 1883, the owner of a controlling
interest.  January 9, 1877, he was married, in Mooresville, to Mary E. Dickinson, by 
whom he has had born to him two children--Dwite A. and Margaret A.  Mr. Hunt is
a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is Reporter or Secretary
of the Lodge of the Knights of Honor.  He is also Secretary of the Old Settlers' Assoc-
iation, of the district comprising the counties of Morgan, Hendricks, Johnson and 
Monroe.  He is a writer of more than ordinary ability, and the Monitor, under his
management, is rapidly increasing in popularity.

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