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which Leander Hunt was connected. Alfred was
educated at the Roxbury high school and at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from
which he was graduated in 1876 in the depart-
ment of metallurgy and mining engineering.
During part of his senior year at the Institute he
did analytic and metallurgical work for the Bay
State Steel Company, and after graduating be-
came chemist and assistant manager of the open-
hearth plant of that company at South Boston, in
which position he assisted in the erection of the
second open-hearth furnace in America. He also
went to Michigan for this company to investigate
newly discovered iron-ore deposits there, and his
reports on the iron fields of northern Michigan
and Wisconsin had an important bearing on the
development of ores in that region. In 1877 he
moved to Nashua, N. H., where as manager and
chemist he superintended the steel department of
the Nashua Iron & Steel Company until 1881.
He then went to Pittsburgh, Pa., as superintend-
ent and metallurgical chemist with Park Broth-
ers & Company, managing the open-hearth and
heavy-forging department of their Black Dia-
mond Steel Company. In 1883 he resigned and
with George H. Clapp, also of Park Brothers,
established a chemical and metallurgical labora-
tory, and acted as consulting engineer for many
of the mills about Pittsburgh. In their labora-
tory was done all of the chemical work for the
newly established Pittsburgh Testing Labora-
tory which they later bought, enlarged, and com-
bined. This testing laboratory is regarded as
the pioneer establishment of its class. It was
equipped for the complete chemical and physical
testing of materials, its experts performed the
inspection of construction and manufacturing
work, served in the capacity of consulting engi-
neers, and acted as expert witnesses in litigation.
As a consultant Hunt had the process for the
reduction of aluminum developed by Charles
Martin Hall [#.Ł>.] brought to his attention, and
was quick to see its merits. He was instrumental
in the organization of a company which pur-
chased the control of the Hall patents and under
the name of the Pittsburgh Reduction Company
erected the first works for the reduction of alumi-
num ore by the Hall process. The process proved
successful and the price of aluminum, which pre-
vious to this time had sold for fifteen dollars a
pmmd, dropped to a level low enough to make
it coanmercially practicable. Hunt was active in
the militia in Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
and late in Pennsylvania, where he organized
aźd commanded Battery B, at one time one of the
most cfficiait volunteer military organizations
fa* the Umted States, At the outbreak of the war

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with Spain, the battery was the earliest to volun-
teer, and Captain Hunt put aside his important
business interests to lead his command. His
health was undermined at Chickamauga, and at
Porto Rico he contracted malaria which affected
his heart, causing his death, at Philadelphia, in
less than a year.

Hunt was a member of various American and
British technical societies. From the American
Society of Civil Engineers he received the Nor-
man gold medal for a paper entitled "A Proposed
Method of Testing Structural Steel," presented
at the International Engineering Congress of the
Columbian Exposition in 1893 and published that
year in the Transactions of the society (Vol.
XXX). On Oct 29, 1878, he married Maria T.
McQuesten, of Nashua, N. H., daughter of Jo-
seph and Elizabeth (Lund) McQuesten. They
had one son.

[Technology Review, July 1899; Proc. Am. Soc. Civil
Engineersf vol. XXVII (1901) ; Minutes of Proc, Inst.
of Civil Engineers (London), vol. CXXXVII (1899);
Trans. Am. Soc. Meek. Engineers, vol. XX (1899);
Trans. Am. Inst. Mining Engineers, vol. XXX (1901);
The Tech (Mass. Inst. of Tech.), Mar, 2, 1899 J T. B.
Wyman, The Geneal. of the Name and Family of Hunt
(1862-63); Pittsburgh Dispatch, Apr. 27, 1899.]

F.A.T.

HUNT, CARLETON (Jan. i, iS3<5-Aug. 14,
1921), lawyer, educator, member of Congress,
was born in New Orleans, La., the son of Dr.
Thomas Hunt and Aglaie Carleton, Until he was
thirteen he was privately educated, then he at-
tended the grammar school attached to the Uni-
versity of Louisiana (later Tulane University).
In 1854 he entered Harvard College, receiving
the degree of A.B. in 1856. He studied law in the
office of his uncle William Henry Hunt [q.v.J,
and W, O. Denegre, in New Orleans, and at the
University of Louisiana, from which he received
the degree of LL.B. in 1858. In this year he was
admitted to the Louisiana bar and began the
practice of law in New Orleans. During his first
year at the bar, as he liked to recall, he earned
$500. On Dec. 24,1860, he married Louise Eliz-
abeth Georgine Cammack, daughter of Robert C.
Cammack of New Orleans.

Like others of his family, Hunt had strong
Union sympathies and supported the Constitu-
tional Union party in Louisiana until the state
seceded. Then, feeling that a successful revolu-
tion had been accomplished, he entered the Loui-
siana Heavy Artillery as first lieutenant in April
1861, After being on detached service as drill-
master, he returned to his company in time to
participate in the fighting at Fort Jackson and
at Fort St Philip, where he was taken prisoner
in April 1862. He was exchanged in August
After the surrender of the forts he resigned his

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