California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


DANIEL O. HUNT.  Born in Concord, Massachusetts, April 10, 1831, where he resided until he was 
nineteen years of age, and was educated at Lawrence Academy. August 28, 1850, he sailed from New 
York for San Francisco via Panama, arriving in this State October 7, 1850. After remaining in San 
Francisco a short time he then engaged in farming in Santa Clara County for two years. He then again 
returned to San Francisco and engaged in the dairying business, and remained there until he came to 
Napa County, which event occurred in October, 1863. He first located in St Helena, and purchased 
seventy acres of land of Mr. Knapp, and engaged in farming for several years, and then embarked in 
the lumber trade, and continued in this until 1872. He then sold out, and has since lived on the fruits of 
a prosperous and well-spent life, owning much valuable property in the town where he resides, and is 
much respected by the whole community. Mr. Hunt married, March 23, 1871, Mrs. Sophie E. Cutter, a 
native of Baltimore.