Elisha Hunt (steamboat pioneer)

Elisha Hunt (1779–1873) was the principal founder and manager of the Monongahela and Ohio Steam Boat Company.[1][2]

Elisha Hunt
Born	October 7, 1779 Moorestown, Burlington County New Jersey, U.S.
Died	July 23, 1873 Moorestown, Burlington County New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation	Farmer Merchant
Spouse(s)	Mary Hussey (1773–1843) Sarah Morey
Children	Emmor (1808–1831)
Parent(s)	Joshua Hunt (1753–1792) Esther Roberts (1751–1820)

Notes

1. Shourds, pp. 314-20
2. Henshaw, pp. 51-7

References

• Horn, W. F. [ed.] (1945), The Horn papers: early western movement on the Monongahela and upper Ohio, 1765–1795, volume 3, Scottsdale, PA: Herald Press
• Roberts-Hunt Family Papers, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
• The Friend (1873), "Esther Collins and Ann Edwards", The Friend, a religious and literary journal, Volume XLVI, No. 46 and 47, Philadelphia: William H. Pile, pp. 362, 370-3
• Henshaw, Marc Nicholas (2014). "Hog chains and Mark Twains: a study of labor history, archaeology, and industrial ethnography of the steamboat era of the Monongahela Valley 1811-1950." Dissertation, Michigan Technological University
• Hunter, Louis C. (1949). Steamboats on the western rivers, an economic and technological history. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1949; reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1993.
• Hynes, Judy, et al. (1997), The descendants of John and Elizabeth (Woolman) Borton, Mount Holly, New Jersey: John Woolman Memorial Association, pp. 23–4
• Shourds, Thomas (1876). History and genealogy of Fenwick's Colony, New Jersey. Bridgeton, New Jersey: 314–20. ISBN 0-8063-0714-5
• Woodward, E. M. (1883), History of Burlington County, New Jersey, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, pp. 270–1

External links

• Find A Grave Memorial for Elisha Hunt