William Southworth Hunt, Editor, Publisher, Former President of NJ
Historical Society

President of the Newark Call Printing and Publishing Company and editor and
publisher of The Newark Sunday Call,. brother of Sanford B. and uncle of
Colonel Sanford B. USMC., father of Alice, died at home, 368 Hillside Place
South Orange NJ., after a year of illness. He was 61. He was the 3rd
generation on the paper.

FROM THE NY TIMES JAN 26,1940
SOUTH ORANGE NJ JAN 26>>

William S.Hunt, president and publisher of The Newark Sunday Call, died 
today at his home 368 hillside Place, after an illness of one year. He
was  61 years old. Mr. Hunt who had not been active at The Call since July,
telephoned his office last Saturday and instructed his staff to put his
obituary in type and set up a "death watch" at his home on the chance that
he would die before the Sunday edition. 

He was born in Newark, NJ, the son of William Tallmadge Hunt and Lucy 
Southworth Hunt, he was the third generation of his family to be connected 
with The Newark Sunday Call. His father was editor of the paper when he died 
in 1916, and his grandfather, Dr. Sanford Beebe.  His maternal 
great-grandfather, Sylvester Southworth, was one of the first Washington 
correspondents and an editor of The New York Sun. Mr. Hunt was educated at 
Miss Pierson's School, the Newark Academy, St. George's Hall in Summit NJ, 
the Dwight School in New York and Yale University, where he was graduated in 
1901 and was ivy poet of his class. He took an MA from Yale two years later.  
Immediately after leaving college he worked for a short time for The New 
York Herald, and in 1903 joined the staff of The Call. He held many positions 
there, working as a reporter, dramatic editor, sports editor and finally in 
1917, became managing editor. In 1935 he became president of the printing and 
publishing company and the next year assumed the editorship in chief of The 
Call, retiring from the latter position the following year. For seven years 
to 1916 he was Northern New Jersey representative of the NEW YORK TIMES, and 
during that period had served as a special writer on New Jersey politics for 
The Sun and The Evening Telegram. 

Mr. Hunt had many activities besides his interest in the newspaper. He served 
as State Budget Commissioner under Governor Silzer, and in 1928 was appointed 
by Governor Moore to the board of managers of the New Jersey Training School 
for Women. He had been a vice president of the South Orange Trust Company for 
seven years to  1932, a governor of the Essex Club since 1910, was a member 
of the board of managers of the Howard Savings Institution and a trustee of 
the Newark Welfare Fund. Mr. Hunt, who contributed for many years to several
magazines, was the author of a biography of Frank Forester, the sports
writer, and at his death was working on a biography of Henry Clay. He had
written the first descriptive report of New Jersey.  His collection of
stamps of Holland was well known. He also possessed a collection of American
autographs dealing with the period 1840 to 1860. He was a member of the
American Philatelic Society, the Grolier Club, the American Numismatic
Society.

[As of 1996 the CLAY MS has not been found.]
However his other papers and those of his father and Civil War papers of his
paternal grandfather are in Manuscript Group No. 21 (HUNT, Sanford B.
Papers), of the New Jersey Historical Society in Newark, NJ..

From: "SANFORD B HUNT" <SBH3@prodigy.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 23:20:07 -0500