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Collection: HUNTER, AARON BURTIS, COLLECTION r,w - -
Raleigh, North Carolina
1831, 1870-1937, n.d.
Physical Description: C. 425 items and 69 volumes, including diaries, cor¬
respondence, photographs, postcards, pamphlets, programs, invitations,
reports, miscellaneous periodicals, newspaper clippings, memorandum book,
engraving, and miscellaneous material;
Acquisition: 1 engraving of capitol of North - Carolina, published in London
in 1831, 2 letters, 1912, 1934, 9 leaflets, 4 pamphlets, 2 pictures from
magazines, 28 copies of St. Augustine's Record. 1924-1936, given by Mrs.
A. B. Hunter, 132 New Bern Avenue, Raleigh, N. C., July. 1936: 34 letters
and parts of letters, 1871-1931, n.d., 19 volumes of Sarah L. Hunter
diaries, 6 volumes of A. B. Hunter diaries, etc., given by the estate of
Mrs. A. B. Hunter through J. B. Cheshire, Jr., June 29. 1940.
Description: Aaron Burtis Hunter was bora in Philadelphia, on April 26, 1854.
He was graduated from Amherst College in 1876 and from the Union Theological
Seminary in 1879, attended the University of Berlin, and was ordained as an
Episcopal priest on May 1, 1882. Later, he received the honorary Doctor of
Divinity degree from Amherst and the University of the South.
In his early ministry he served churches in Ohio and Colorado. In
February, 1888, he became vice-principal of St. Augustine School in Raleigh,
and in 1891, principal; he retired from this position in 1916. After leav¬
ing St. Augustine, he served for short periods of time as rector of churches
in Dresden, Germany, and Geneva, Switzerland, and for two years in St. James
Church, Florence, Italy. Hunter was well known in the Episcopal Church — he
had .served as president of the standing committee of the Diocese of North
Carolina. Before his death in July, 1933, he taught, a Bible class at Christ
Church, Raleigh.
Hunter was married to Sarah Lothrop Taylor of Brooklyn, New York, on
January 9, 1888. She was instrumental in establishing St. Agnes Hospital
on the St. Augustine campus.
The Aaron Burtis Hunter Collection consists of diaries and memorandum
books of Dr. and Mrs. Hunter and various miscellaneous material. Cor¬
respondence, photographs, periodicals, pamphlets, and postcards are among
'the miscellaneous items. Dr. Hunter's diaries and memorandum books concern
his activities while in school, while at St. Augustine, and while traveling
in Europe. (The Hunters made at least thirteen trips to Europe from 1899
to 1923.) Mrs. Hunter's diaries are entirely on, the travels in Europe
except for a brief account of a visit to Orlando, Florida, in 1917.