John Wesley Hunt daybook, July-September, 1796
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- John Wesley Hunt daybook, July-September, 1796
- Creator
- Hunt, John Wesley, 1773-1849.
- Extent
- 1 reel of microfilm (1 volume)
- Subjects
- Hunt, John Wesley, 1773-1849.
- General stores--Kentucky.
- Business records--Kentucky.
- Merchants.
- Lexington (Ky.)--History
- Arrangement
- Arrangement is chronological.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Merchant, manufacturer, financier. John Wesley Hunt came to Lexington, Kentucky, from Trenton, New Jersey in 1795. He opened a general store, and later became a wholesale trader in cotton, tobacco, saltpeter, and especially hemp. He was also involved in horse breeding and banking. Among Hunt's descendants were the Confederate General John Hunt Morgan, and the Nobel prize-winning biologist, Thomas Hunt Morgan.
- Scope and Content
- This is a daybook for part of 1796 which apparently belonged to John Wesley Hunt. The accounts may be those of Hunt's general store in Lexington, Ky.
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