Hunt was William, so that she could complete the edu- cation of her children. The two boys entered the Hopkins Grammar School, a preparatory school for Yale. In 1839 the family went to New Or- leans to make their permanent home. William remained in New Haven to enter Yale College. In the early part of his junior year poverty forced him to abandon the academic course. After a few months he entered the Yale law school, hoping in this way to facilitate his admission to the bar, but he was again obliged to cut short his studies and join his family in New Orleans. There his brothers were prominent young attorneys and they gave him an opportunity to study law in their office. In 1844 he was admitted to the Louisiana bar and successfully practised law in New Orleans until 1878. The best known cases in which he appeared as counsel or attorney were the Slaughter House cases and Jackson vs. Vicks- burg, Shreveport, and Texas Railroad Company. For a few months in 1866 he was professor of civil law in the law school of the University of Louisiana (later Tulane University), taking the place of his brother Randell, who was tempo- *-arily absent Hunt was married four times. His first wife, Frances Ann Andrews, of Hinds County, Miss., whom he married in Nov. 16,1848, died of tuber- culosis eight months after the wedding. On Oct 14, 1852, he married, in the state of New York, Elizabeth Augusta Ridgely, daughter of Com- modore Charles G, Ridgely [g.#.]- They made their home in New Orleans, where his son Gail- lard [#.#.] and their other six children were born. Two years after her death in 1864, he mar- ried, in New Orleans, Sarah Barker Harrison, from whom he was divorced four years later. On June 1,1871, he married Mrs. Louise F. Hop- kins, niece of a prominent New Orleans mer- chant. While he did not hold a prominent politi- cal office until comparatively late in his career, Hunt was always interested in politics. As a child in South Carolina he had had his first les- son when his elder brothers fought against nulli- fication. From 1844 to 1854 he was a Whig, then he joined the Know-Nothings. In 1860 he supported the ticket of the Constitutional Union party. From 1860 to 1865 his status was that of a southern Unionist. Early in the Civil War he was embarrassed by being drafted into the Con- federate service and commissioned a lieutenant- colonel, but his military activities were confined to drilling troops for a few months at New Or- leans. After Farragut captured the city he en- tertained the admiral and the officers of his fleet. On July 3,1876, he was nominated for the office of state attorney-general by the Republicans and was later elected, but he lost the position when Hunt the Democrats gained control of Louisiana after the Hayes-Tilden election. He was appointed associate judge of the United States Court of Claims, May 15, 1878, and held the position un- til appointed secretary of the navy by President Garfield, Mar. 5, 1881. Here his most notable service was the appointment of the first naval advisory board which began the work of build- ing the new American navy. On Apr. 7, 1882, he was appointed United States minister to Rus- sia by President Arthur. According to his son and biographer, he considered the appointment equivalent to a dismissal from the office of secre- tary of the navy. After he reached Russia, his health, which had not been good since 1878, took a turn for the worse, and he died Feb. 27, 1884. His body was brought to the United States the following March, and his funeral took place in St John's Episcopal Church, Washington, D, C, on Apr. 8. He was buried in Oak Hill cemetery, Washington. Life of Wm. H. Hunt (1922), by his son, TJios. Hunt, has furnished most of the material for this sketch. Other sources include the La. Hist. Quart,, July 1922; E, S. Maclay, A Hist, of the U. S. Navy from i?75 to 1893 (1894), vol. II; J. D. Long, Tk* New Am. Navy (1903), vol. I; and the Washington Post, Feb. 28, Apr. 9* 1884.] K. J. W. HUNT, WILLIAM MORRIS (Mar. 31, 1824- Sept 8, 1879), painter, brother of Richard Mor- ris Hunt [g.vj, was born at Brattleboro, Vt, the son of Judge Jonathan Hunt, a prominent jurist and member of Congress, who died in 1832. His mother, Jane Maria (Leavitt) Hunt, who went from Connecticut to Vermont after her marriage, was a woman of ability and character with a pen- chant for art William, the eldest of five chil- dren, was precocious and learned to draw well at an early age, his first teacher being an Italian artist named Gambadella. In due time he entered Harvard College, but in his third year he was rusticated, "to his evident satisfaction/' and he never returned, His health was not good, and his mother took him to the South of France and to Rome. In 1843, at &e aŁe °* twenty-one, he entered the Dusseldorf academy of art, but he found the system there inflexible and left the next year for Paris^ where he became a pupil of Thomas Couture, He made rapid progress and before long was rated the best painter Ja tfae class. He thoroughly assimilated and asastered Couture's famous method. At this time a new and powerful mfltaeaee, thai of Jean Francois Millet, nia