Hunter, William (Bond Co., IL)

Born: 1787 North Carolina

Flourished: Bond County, Illinois

Hunter was a Methodist clergyman who settled in Bond County, Illinois, by 1821. Hunter represented Bond County in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1832 to 1836, and in the Illinois Senate from 1838 to 1842.

William Henry Perrin, ed., History of Bond and Montgomery Counties, Illinois (Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1882), 71, 80, 91, 163; John Clayton, comp., Illinois Fact Book and Historical Almanac, 1673-1968 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970), 203, 204, 206, 208; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Bond County, IL, 399.