Patterson Cemetery District, Stanislaus County, CA 

Obituaries for 1927

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Hunt Thomas Forsyth  19270429 p1
Professor Hunt Passes Away on Steamer in Mid Pacific   Professor Thomas Forsyth Hunt, former Dean of the College of
Agriculture of the University of California, passed away on the Steamer Wilhelmina Tuesday while enroute home from
Honolulu, where he had attended the Pan-Pacific Conference on Education, Reclamation and Rehabilitation.  News of his
passing, caused by heart failure, was received here with sincere regret, as Prof. Hunt has been a Pattersonite since the first
of the year, his stay being interrupted by the Hawaiian trip, from which he planned to return to finish his survey of
Patterson colony as an agricultural study.  His death is a distinct loss to Patterson Colony, as his deep and sympathetic
interest in the development of the Colony furnished the inspiration for the survey he had under way, and which when
completed, would have made a most comprehensive report and one which would have created widespread interest.
Whether another faculty member will be delegated to complete the survey is not known.  It is also probable that Patterson
Colony was the topic of his last public address, as he had said just prior to his departure from here, that he planned to use
the Colony as his topic at the Honolulu conference if it met the approval of Secretary of the Interior Work, in charge of
the gathering.  Whether the talk was delivered is not known.  Prof. Hunt was an outstanding figure in agricultural
education, his text books being in use all over the world, and he has received honors, both at home and abroad.  To him is
given the major credit for the great growth of the Agricultural College of the University of California since he became
Dean in 1912, retiring in 1923 to take a post professorship.  He was 65 years old.