. M. Hunt was born in Michigan, February 16, 1849; lived in that state until twenty-one years of age and then moved to Ohio where he remained until he came to California in 1886 and to Redlands the following year. Mr. Hunt learned the carpenter's trade early in life and followed it in Ohio and California. On coming to Redlands he bought a ten-acre ranch, in the Chicago Colony on Citrus Avenue, where he now resides, having given up his former occupation as carpenter for orange growing, and the growing of citrus and olive nursery stock. He has made a success of the latter, of which he has made a specialty. He was married in Ohio to Miss Clara Church, and they have two children. Mr. Hunt was a director and secretary of the East Redlands Water Company from 1889 to January 1897.

(Source: Illustrated Redlands, 1897, p. 15.)